which they lived was also called Aśvaka. The Sanskrit term aśva, Prakrit assa and Avestan aspa means horse. The name Aśvaka/Aśvakan or Assaka is derived from...
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King ⁂ Victory 326-04 April 326 BC Indian Campaign Aornos Siege of Aornos .Aśvaka Siege Pakistan King ⁂ Victory 326-05 May 326 BC Indian Campaign Hydaspes...
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both of these ancient tribal names were probably derived from the word Aśvaka, which literally means "horsemen", "horse breeders", or "cavalrymen" (from...
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scholars sought a connection with "horse", Skt.aśva-, Av.aspa-, i.e.the Aśvaka or Aśvakayana the name of the Aśvakan or Assakan, ancient inhabitants of...
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Afghan is Aryan being derived from Asvakayana, an important clan of the Asvakas or horsemen who must have derived this title from their handling of celebrated...
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King ⁂ Victory 326-04 April 326 BC Indian Campaign Aornos Siege of Aornos .Aśvaka Siege Pakistan King ⁂ Victory 326-05 May 326 BC Indian Campaign Hydaspes...
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the Great The Valley of the Cophen Belligerents Macedon League of Corinth Aśvaka Kasmira Guraeans Assakenoi Commanders and leaders Alexander the Great (WIA)...
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Afghan is Aryan being derived from Asvakayana, an important clan of the Asvakas or horsemen who must have derived this title from their handling of celebrated...
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Afghan is Aryan being derived from Asvakayana, an important clan of the Asvakas or horsemen who must have derived this title from their handling of celebrated...
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Alexander the Great, while the Western Gandharan tribes, exemplified by the Aśvaka around the Swat valley, resisted. Following the Macedonian downfall, Gandhara...
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Alexander. The Janapadas exhibited resistance to his advances, notably the Aśvaka of Gandhara, the Mallians of South Punjab, and Porus of Central Punjab....
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the Indus Valley Belligerents Macedonian Empire Hellenic League Gandhara Aśvaka Guraeans Pauravas Mallians Oxydracians Abastanoí Commanders and leaders...
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Avghaneti - ავღანეთი (Georgian, Mingrelian), Əfqanıstan (Azeri), Gāndhāra, Aśvaka - गन्धार, अश्वक (Sanskrit), l-Afghanistan (Maltese), Yn Afghanistaan (Manx)...
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(327–325 BC) Macedonia Hellenic League Persian Satraps Ancient India Pauravas Aśvaka Mallians Guraeans Victory Hellenic conquest of great part of the Indus Valley...
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Esapzai/Aśvakas from the Kamboja age. The Kom/Kamoz people of Nuristan retain their Kamboj name. The Ashkun of Nuristan also retain the name of Aśvakas. The...
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Paropamisus in Iron Age India Kambojan, an Indo-Iranian language of these people Aśvaka, a people of ancient India, either related to the above or a distinct people...
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dwelt by the Asvaka Kambojas and not by the Sacans although they were related peoples (they were both East Iranians, however the Asvaka Kambojas were...
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Commercial ..., 1885, p 196, Edward Balfour - India. For Asii = Assi = Asvaka - a tribe connected with Asvas or horses, See also : The Racial History...
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Pakistan. McCrindle claims Yashkuns descend from the ancient tribe of Aśvakan/Aśvakas (Kambojas). Some Yashkuns live in the Hindu Kush region where the Kambojas...
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livehistoryindia.com. Retrieved 2021-04-10. Gupta, Kalyan Kumar Das (1972). "The Aśvakas: an Early Indian Tribe". East and West. 22 (1/2): 33–40. ISSN 0012-8376...
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1981, p 278, These Kamboj People, 1979, pp 119-20, K. S. Dardi etc. For Aśvaka/Kamboja connection See: Historie du bouddhisme Indien, p 110, Dr E. Lammotte;...
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Afghanistan. It was in the Kamboja region and the habitat of the Aspasioi tribe (Aśvakas) whom Arrian calls Indian barbarians. These people had given a tough fight...
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youngest son of the Chahamana king Jendraraja. He is also known as Ashvaka (Aśvaka) and Ashvaraja (Aśvarāja). He succeeded his elder brothers Prithvipala and...
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habitats of the Asvaka Kambojas since remote antiquity. The Asvakas were cattle breeders and horse folk and had earned the epithet of Asvakas due to their...
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Cf: "There were Dionysiac festivals in honor of god Siva who belonged to Asvaka district, north of Kabul river where flourished thye vine-orchards" (See:...
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name are uncertain. Some sources say that it derives from the Saka words "asvaka" or "as-saka" which mean "horse" or "horsemen", respectively. That is why...
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Aspasius of Tyre, Greek rhetorician of unknown date Aspasia (disambiguation) Aśvaka, an ancient people of present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan, also known as...
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Asmaka was not an independent southern kingdom, but referred instead to Asvaka—a nation in the north ruled by the Kambojas. The epic Mahabharata mentions...
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