Bajaur, The Home of Aspasioi (Aspasian) Clan
The territory around the findspot for the silver reliquary was the stronghold of the warlike Indo-Iranian people called Aspasioi who had formed the western branch of the Ashvakas of the Sanskrit texts. Dr Prashant Srivastava of the University of Lucknow, has recently written a research monograph which aims to highlight the significant role played by the family of the Apraca kings in ancient Indian history, and has connected this family of the Apraca kings with the Ashvaka clan. But, the Ashvaka clan was none else than a sub-branch of the greater Kamboja tribe spread on either side of the Hindukush. See Ashvakas. These people, identified as sub-branch of the Kambojas, had earlier offered stubborn resistance to Macedonian invader Alexander in 326 BCE and later also constituted an important component of the grand army of Chandragupta Maurya. According to Dr Bailey, the dynastic/geographic title Apraca/Apaca/Avaca may underlie the modern toponym Bajaur.
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