The Idea of "India" and "Gandāra" in the Earliest Iranian and Greek Sources.
Hinduš, the Old Persian name for a region of the Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 bce), ultimately underlies the English word India. The history of the word Hinduš and its cognates has attracted considerable research, yet the precise referent of Hinduš in its Achaemenid context remains imperfectly...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia (JASPA) Vol. 146; no. 2; pp. 241 - 263 |
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