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92 INDIA AS DESCRIBED IN EARLY TEXTS and his son Šivi without giving any hint as to their connection with the Sivi people or kingdom. The connection is made clear in the Mahābhārata (üi, 130.131) which definitely speaks of a Sivi kingdom ruled by king Ušīnara, "which lay not far from the Yamunā'.Patañjali in his comment on Pāṇini's rule (iv, 2.2), mentions a locality in the north-western India by the name of Sivapura which is apparently the same place as Sivipura mentioned in & Shorkot inscription. Thus we may agree with Dr. Vogel in thinking that the Shorkot region was once the site of a city of the Sivis. The people of this part of Uttarāpatha were known to the Greek historians as Siboi, equipped with 40,000 foot-soldiers at the time of Alexander's invasion, dressing themselves with the skins of wild beasts and having clubs for their weapons.
The Khuddakas (Greek Sudracoe or Oxydrakai, Sk. Kşudrakā), Suddakas (Greek Sodrai), Rohanas and Sindhavas are four other tribes or peoples of Uttarāpatha who find mention in the Apadāna (ii, p. 359). Of them, the first founded a territory between the Hydraotes (Ravi) and Hyphasis (Bias), and
1 Jalaka, vi, p. 96f. * Raychaudhuri, op. cit., 4th ed., p. 205. > E.I., 1921, p. 16, * Raychaudhuri, op. cit., 4th ed., p. 204.
