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Rh this dialect. Kekaya, as we know, was a great centre of culture from very early times, of which Takshasila is the chief seat, where Panini, and before him Buddha himself appear to have received their education. The standard Paisaci can therefore be most certainly located as a local dialect of Kekaya and Eastern Gandhara, lying in the extreme North-West of India.

Of the rest of the Paisaci speaking tracts mentioned by Markandeya Kanchidesiya, Pandya, Dakshinaty, Sabara and Dravida belong to Indiv South of the Vindhya mountain, as also the Sabya, Simhala, and Kannojana nanied by Lakshmidbara. Gauda and Magadha belong to the East of India above the Vindhyay. Pancala, is the Panjab. Sourasena is identified with modern Gujerat. Vararuci says the Sauraseni is the basis of the Paisaci. Vracada is modern Sindh. Nepala is well known, Kuntala is