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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2010
Ptolemy vii, 1, 6 calls the country between the Jhelum and the Ravi, with the cities of Bucephala, Iomousa, and Sāgala, ἡ Πανδοούων or Πανδαούων or χώρα. The readings vary; that of the best MS, X (Πανδόπων), is too corrupt to make anything of, and the others vary between Πανδόπων, Πανδόόπων (which Renou prints), and Πανδόόπων the word is certainly Pāndava, the form last mentioned being an exact transliteration. The Latin versions give Pandanorum, Pandonorum, Pandorum, and Pandiana regio.
The location of the name, which is part of Ptolemy's Hellenistic material (Chap, vi), shows that it can have nothing to do with the kingdom of the Pãndhya in the extreme south of the Indian peninsula, which moreover only really came within the purview of the West about the time of Augustus, though the two names have sometimes been confused, both in the Latin versions of Ptolemy and in modern writers.
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