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Pahlavas
Ethnic group mentioned in historic Indian texts / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Pahlavas are a people mentioned in ancient Indian texts. According to Patrick Carnegy,[3] a Raj-era ethnographer, the 4th-century BCE Vartika of Katyayana mentions the Sakah-Parthavah, demonstrating an awareness of these Saka-Parthians, probably by way of commerce.[4] Knowledge of the Pahlavas is distilled from the literary references in texts like the Manu Smriti, various Puranas, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and the Bṛhat Saṃhitā.
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