Parasika was an ancient
Yavana
The word Yona in Pali and the Prakrits, and the analogue Yavana in Sanskrit and Yavanar in Tamil, were words used in Ancient India to designate Greek speakers. "Yona" and "Yavana" are transliterations of the Greek word for "Ionians" ( grc, ...
kingdom inhabited by the Parasikas tribe and mentioned in the Indian epic the ''
Mahabharata
The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; sa, महाभारतम्, ', ) is one of the two major Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epics of ancient India in Hinduism, the other being the ''Ramayana, Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the s ...
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A king named Parasarya is mentioned at two locations in ''Mahabharata'', at 2:4 and at 2:7. It is not clear if he belonged to the Parasikas.
See also
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Kingdoms of ancient India
The Mahājanapadas ( sa, great realm, from ''maha'', "great", and ''janapada'' "foothold of a people") were sixteen kingdoms or oligarchic republics that existed in ancient India from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE during the second urba ...
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''Hyoscyamus niger'', known in Sanskrit as ''Parasika Yavani''
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Kingdoms in the Mahabharata
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