The Ambantae were a tribe,Philippus CLUVERIUS, Introductionis in universam geographiam (Leonard Lichfield, 1657) page 26. in the district of Paropamisis in BactriaSir William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: Iabadius-Zymethus (J. Murray, 1873) p 553.An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time, Volume 5 (T. Osborne, 1747) page 58-59. near the Hindu Kush ranges in northern Afghanistan during antiquity,J. Vorstius Apud, Philippi Cluuerii Introductionis in universam geographiam, tam veterem quàm novam, libri VI. Cui adjuncta est Danielis Heinsii Oratio in obitum eiusdem Philippi Cluuerii. (L. Elizevirium, 1651) pages 263-264.An Universal History: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, Part 1, Volume 4 (C. Bathurst, 1779) page 32. and who were mentioned by Ptolemy,Ptolemy 6:18:3. Curtius and Strabo. Strabo records that their lands, though very cold in winter, were fertile.Strabo xvi.3Curtius Vii 3.
History During the Hellenistic and Persian Empires the Ambantae lived in the satrapy of the Paropanisadai.Vincent Arthur Smith, Asoka, the Buddhist Emperor of India (Asian Educational Services, 1997) page 11.
They are mentioned in Claudius PtolemaeusClaudius Ptolemaeus, Geographia: gewidmet Kardinal Aloysius Cornelius, Volume 0 (Vincentius Valgrisius, 1562) page 236 and appear on map XI of that work, in the area north west of modern Kabul. Biography of Chandragupta Maurya: Ancestry, Early Life and His Conquest.
They came under the rule of Demetrius I of Bactria, who was ruling Greek Bactria from KupisaN. N. Ghosh, Do The References To The Yavana Invasion Of India Found In The Yugapurana, Patanjali Mahabhashya And The Malavikagnimitra Form The Evidence Of One Single Event? Proceedings of the Indian History Congress Vol. 9 (1946), pp. 93-103. until Eucratides I of the Indo-Greek Kingdom conquered the area.
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