Pakhtas

location of Pakthas among early Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes source ↗

Pakthas or Pakhtas was an ancient Vedic Indo-Aryan tribe¹ living in the northern borderlands of South Asia.²³ They are sometimes identified with the Pactyans of Herodotus.⁴⁵

It is theorised that they are the ancestors of modern Pashtuns, based on the phonetical similarity between the words Pakhta and Pakhtun (alternate for Pashtuns).²

References

Prasad, R. U. S. (2020). The Rig-Vedic and Post-Rig-Vedic Polity (1500 BCE–500 BCE). Vernon Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-64889-001-7.
Pradhan, Shrinivas Vasudeo (2014). The Elusive Aryans: Archaeological Search and Vedic Research; The Origin of the Hindus. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-4438-6592-0.
Macdonell, Arthur Anthony; Keith, Arthur Berriedale (1912). Vedic Index of Names and Subjects. Vol. I. John Murray. p. 464.
Kakar, Hasan Kawun (2014). Government and Society in Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir 'Abd al-Rahman Khan. University of Texas Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-292-76777-5.
Sonawani, Sanjay (2015). Origins of the Vedic Religion: And Indus-Ghaggar Civilisation. Booktango. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-4689-5713-6.

[1] Prasad, R. U. S. (2020). The Rig-Vedic and Post-Rig-Vedic Polity (1500 BCE–500 BCE). Vernon Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-64889-001-7.

[a-2] Pradhan, Shrinivas Vasudeo (2014). The Elusive Aryans: Archaeological Search and Vedic Research; The Origin of the Hindus. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-4438-6592-0.

[3] Macdonell, Arthur Anthony; Keith, Arthur Berriedale (1912). Vedic Index of Names and Subjects. Vol. I. John Murray. p. 464.

[4] Kakar, Hasan Kawun (2014). Government and Society in Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir 'Abd al-Rahman Khan. University of Texas Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-292-76777-5.

[5] Sonawani, Sanjay (2015). Origins of the Vedic Religion: And Indus-Ghaggar Civilisation. Booktango. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-4689-5713-6.

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