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The Aśvakas (Sanskrit: अश्वक), also known as the Ashvakas, Aśvakayanas or Asvayanas and sometimes Latinised as Assacenii/Assacani, were a people who lived in what is now north-eastern Afghanistan and the Peshawar Valley. The region in which they lived is also called Aśvaka and should not be confused with the similarly named mahajanapada (great country) of south India that is recorded in ancient Buddhist texts.[1] EtymologyThe Sanskrit term aśva, Iranian aspa and Prakrit assa means horse. The name Aśvaka/Aśvakan or Assaka is derived from the Sanskrit Aśva or Prakrit Assa and it denotes someone connected with the horses, hence a horseman, or a cavalryman[2][3][4] or horse breeder.[5] The Aśvakas were especially engaged in the occupation of breeding, raising and training war horses, as also in providing expert cavalry services.{{cn|date=February 2019}} EthnologyAncient Greek historians who documented the exploits of Alexander the Great refer to the Aspasioi and Assakenoi tribes among his opponents. The historian Ramesh Chandra Majumdar has said that these words are probably corruptions of Aśvaka.[6] It is possible that the corruption of the names occurred due to regional differences in pronunciation.[7] Rama Shankar Tripathi thinks it possible that the Assakenoi were either allied to or a branch of the Aspasioi.[8] The Greeks recorded the two groups as inhabiting different areas, with the Aspasioi in either the Alishang or Kunar Valley and the Assakenoi in the Swat Valley.[7] The Aśvaka may have been a sub-group of the Kamboja tribe that is referenced in ancient Sanskrit and Pali literature, such as the Mahabharata and Puranas, and which were partitioned into eastern and western Aśvakas.[9] Barbara West treats the ethnonyms Kamboja, Aśvaka, Aspasioi, Assakenoi and Asvakayana as synonyms.[11] HistoryThe Assakenoi fielded 2,000 cavalry, 30 elephants and 30,000 infantry{{efn|The statistics for the Assakenoi forces that fought Alexander vary. For example, Barbara West says there were 30,000 cavalry, 20,000 infantry and at least 30 elephants.[10]}} against Alexander during his campaign in India, which began in 327 BCE, but they eventually had to surrender after losses at places such as Beira, Massaga and Ora. The Aspasioi chose to flee into the hills but destroyed their city of Arigaion before doing so; 40,000 of them were captured, along with 230,000 oxen.[11] Diodorus recorded the strength of the Aśvaka opposition, noting that the women took up arms along with the men, preferring "a glorious death to a life of dishonour".[12] The Asvayanas have been attested to be good cattle breeders and agriculturists by classical writers. Arrian said that, during the time of Alexander, there were a large number of bullocks - 230,000 - of a size and shape superior to what the Macedonians had known, which Alexander captured from them and decided to send to Macedonia for agriculture.[13] ReferencesNotes{{notelist}}Citations1. ^{{cite book |title=Geography from Ancient Indian Coins & Seals |first=Parmanand |last=Gupta |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |year=1989 |isbn=978-8-17022-248-4 |pages=17–18 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LzHpZ5N5MhcC&pg=PA17}} 2. ^{{cite book |title=Ethnic Settlements in Ancient India: A Study on the Puranic Lists of the Peoples of Bharatavarsa |publisher=General Printers and Publishers |year=1955 |page=51 |first=Sashi Bhusan |last=Chaudhuri}} 3. ^{{cite book |title=History of Indian Buddhism: From the Origins to the Saka Era |year=1988 |first=Etienne |last=Lamotte |others=Trans. Webb-Boin, Sara |publisher=Université Catholique de Louvain |isbn=978-9-06831-100-6 |page=100 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sJwEAAAAYAAJ}} 4. ^{{cite book |title=The History and Culture of the Indian People |year=1977 |volume=2 |page=45 |first=Ramesh Chandra |last=Majumdar |first2= Achut Dattatrya |last2=Pusalker |first3=Bharatiya Vidya |last3=Bhavan |first4=A. K. |last4=Majumdar |first5= Dilip Kumar |last5=Ghose |first6= Vishvanath Govind |last6=Dighe}} 5. ^{{cite book |title=Faiths of Man: A Cyclopaedia of Religions |volume=1 |year=1906 |page=554 |first= J. G. R. |last=Forlong |url=https://archive.org/stream/faithsofmancyclo00forl#page/n303/mode/2up/search/horse+breeders}} 6. ^{{cite book |title=Ancient India |first=Ramesh Chandra |last=Majumdar |authorlink=Ramesh Chandra Majumdar |edition=Reprinted |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |year=1977 |origyear=1952 |isbn=978-8-12080-436-4 |page=99 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XNxiN5tzKOgC&pg=PA99}} 7. ^1 {{cite book |title=The Cambridge History of India |volume=1 |editor-first=Edward James |editor-last=Rapson |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1955 |page=352 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gYg8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA352 |chapter=Alexander the Great |first=E. R. |last=Bevan}} 8. ^{{cite book |title=History of Ancient India |first=Rama Shankar |last=Tripathi |edition=Reprinted |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |origyear=1942 |year=1992 |isbn=978-8-12080-018-2 |page=119 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rOVpOG6MPMcC&pg=PA119}} 9. ^{{cite book|title=The History and Culture of the Indian People|volume=2|year=1968|pages=49|first=Ramesh Chandra|last=Majumdar|first2=Bharatiya Vidya|last2=Bhavan}} 10. ^1 {{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania |first=Barbara A. |last=West |publisher=Infobase Publishing |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-43811-913-7 |page=359 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pCiNqFj3MQsC&pg=PA359}} 11. ^{{cite book|title=A Companion to the Classical Greek World |editor-first=Konrad H. |editor-last=Kinzl |edition=Reprinted |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |year=2010 |origyear=2006 |isbn=978-1-44433-412-8 |page=577 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=loeWIRBo3isC&pg=PA577 |chapter=The Conquests of Alexander the Great |first=Waldemar |last=Heckel}} 12. ^{{cite book |title=History of Civilizations of Central Asia |year=1999 |page=76 |first1=Ahmad Hasan |last1=Dani |first2=Vadim Mikhaĭlovich |last2=Masson |first3=János |last3=Harmatta |first4=Boris Abramovich |last4=Litvinovskiĭ |first5=Clifford Edmund |last5=Bosworth |publisher=UNESCO |url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0010/001057/105703eo.pdf}} 13. ^{{cite book |title=cf: A Historical Dictionary of Indian Food |publisher=Oxford India Paperbacks |page=91 |first= K. T. |last=Achaya |year=2001}} Further reading
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