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Pahlavas
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<p>The Pahlavas are a people mentioned in ancient Indian texts. According to Patrick Carnegy, a Raj-era ethnographer, the 4th-century BCE <i>Vartika</i> of <a href="/facts/Katyayana/r2CB9mtK">Katyayana</a> mentions the <i>Sakah-Parthavah</i>, demonstrating an awareness of these Saka-Parthians, probably by way of commerce. Knowledge of the Pahlavas is distilled from the literary references in texts like the <i><a href="/facts/Manu_Smriti/kpMFsXkA">Manu Smriti</a></i>, various <a href="/facts/Puranas/AQ7FeRsA">Puranas</a>, the <i><a href="/facts/Ramayana/z2DykxzF">Ramayana</a></i>, the <i><a href="/facts/Mahabharata/EKbN9XwS">Mahabharata</a></i>, and the <i><a href="/facts/B%E1%B9%9Bhat_Sa%E1%B9%83hit%C4%81/zgAxCKuR">Bṛhat Saṃhitā</a></i>. </p>