Aśvaka
People of ancient Gandhara / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the people of ancient Gandhara. For the ancient region of south India, see Assaka.
Asvakas (Sanskrit: Aśvaka)[lower-alpha 1] were an ancient Indo-Aryan people from Gandhara in the present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan.[3][2][4] The region in which they lived was also called Aśvaka.[5]