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There was an outflow of people from India before the fifteenth century BC.

— F. E. Pargiter Ancient Indian Historical Tradition (1962)

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The river constituted the boundary between the Panjab and the Ganges-Jumna basin.

The next Druhyu king Gandhāra retired to the northwest and gave his name to the Gandhāra country.

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Indian tradition knows nothing of any Aila or Aryan invasion of India from Afghanistan, nor of any gradual advance from thence eastwards.

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Indian tradition distinctly asserts that there was an Aila outflow of the Druhyus through the northwest into the countries beyond where they founded various kingdoms.

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