In some texts the Pahlavas are synonymous with the Pallavas, a dynasty of Southern India: While the Vayu Purana distinguishes between Pahlava and Pahnava, the Vamana Purana and Matsya Purana refer to both as Pallava.

The Pahlavas are said to be same as the Parasikas.

There are important references to the warring Mleccha hordes of the Shakas, Yavanas, Kambojas, Pahlavas etc.

The Yavanas or Yonas are frequently found listed with the Kambojas, Sakas, Pahlavas and other northwestern tribes in numerous ancient Indian texts.

In the Shanti Parva section, the Yavanas are grouped with the Kambojas, Kiratas, Sakas, and the Pahlavas etc.

There are some claims based on historical, anthropological, and linguistic evidence indicating that the Southern Indian states of the Pallavas was originally founded by the Parthians, either from Iran or from the territories of the Indo-Parthians in northwestern India, also called Pahlavas in Indian literature.

Assuming the correctness of the identification of the Pallavas with the pauranic Pahlavas, and of the Pahlavas with the Parthians, there are good historical grounds for supposing that Parthian colonies established themselves in the Deccan at a very early period.

There are references to the hordes of the Sakas, Yavanas, Kambojas, and Pahlavas in the Bala Kanda of the Valmiki Ramayana.

From the foregoing discussion, it is noticeable that there are several references which bracket the Khasas with the Kambojas, Shakas, Pahlavas, Paradas tribes of the Uttarapatha.

During second century BCE, a section of Kambojas from Central Asia had joined the great tribal movement from Central Asia, and in alliance with the Sakas, Pahlavas, Abhiras etc., they are known to have spread into western and south-western parts of India.

The Mlechchas were people who were barbaric Among the tribes termed Mlechcha were Sakas, Huns, Yavanas, Kambojas, Pahlavas, Bahlikas and Rishikas.

Numerous Puranic literature groups the Yavanas with the Sakas, Kambojas, Pahlavas and Paradas and refers to the peculiar hair styles of these people which were different from those of the Hindus.

Based on this information of Manusmriti and Mahabharata, the scholars have listed the Kambojas, Sakas, Yavanas, Pahlavas, Kiratas, Chinas and other ancient Kshatriya clans as Vratya Kshatriyas or degraded Kshatriyas etc.

Indian literature contains numerous references to the cavalry forces of the Central Asian horse nomads like the Sakas, Kambojas, Yavanas, Pahlavas and Paradas.

Early Indian literature records military alliances between the Sakas, Kambojas, Pahlavas and Paradas.

... who crushed down the pride and conceit of the Kshatriyas ( the native Indian princes, the Rajputs of Rajputana, Gujarat and Central India ); who destroyed the Shakas ( Western Kshatrapas ), Yavanas ( Indo-Greeks ) and Pahlavas ( Indo-Parthians ),... who rooted the Khakharata family ( The Kshaharata family of Nahapana ); who restored the glory of the Satavahana race.

Interestingly, the same two texts also locate one section of the Kambojas and the Pahlavas in south-west India, in Anupadesha, which region borders on this south-western Rishika country.

Indologists like Dr H. C. Raychadhury, Dr B. C. Law, Dr Satya Shrava and others see in these verses the clear glimpses of the struggles of the Hindus with the mixed invading hordes of the barbaric Sakas, Yavanas, Kambojas, Pahlavas etc.

Later, they played a crucial role to protect a huge part of India against foreign invaders like the Sakas, Yavanas and Pahlavas.

The Vangas and Angas and Paundras and Odras and Cholas and Dravidas and Cheras and Pandyas and Mushika and Andhakas, and the chiefs of many islands and countries on the seaboard as also of frontier states, including the rulers of the Sinhalas, the barbarous mlecchas, the natives of Lanka, and all the kings of the West by hundreds, and all the chiefs of the seacoast, and the kings of the Pahlavas and the Daradas and the various tribes of the Kiratas and Yavanas and Sakras and the Harahunas and Chinas and Tukharas and the Sindhavas and the Jagudas and the Ramathas and the Mundas and the inhabitants of the kingdom of women and the Tanganas and the Kekayas and the Malavas and the inhabitants of Kasmira ... ( 3: 51 ).

According to numerous Puranas, the military Corporations of the Shakas, Yavanas, Kambojas, Pahlavas and Paradas, known as pānca-ganah ( five hordes ) as well as foremost of the Kshatriya or warrior clans ( Kshatriya-ganah & Ksatriya pungvah ), had militarily supported the Haihaya and Talajunga Kshatriyas in depriving Ikshvaku king Bahu ( the 7th king in descent from Harishchandra ), of his Ayodhya kingdom.

Balakanda of Ramayana also groups the Yavanas with the Kambojas, Sakas, Pahlavas etc.

The Valmiki Ramayana also attests that the Sakas, Kambojas, Pahlavas and Yavanas fought together against the Vedic, Hindu king Vishwamitra of Kanauj.

Bhishama Parava of the Mahabharata does not distinguish between the Pahlavas and Pallavas.

The Mahabharata also associates the Shakas with the Yavanas, Gandharas, Kambojas, Pahlavas, Tusharas, Sabaras, Barbaras, etc.

The following evidence from Udyogaparava of Mahabharata associates the Rishikas with the Kambojas, Shakas and Pahlavas and states them all living around Anupa region or Anupadesha.

Among the tribes termed Mlechcha were Sakas, Hunas, Yavanas, Kambojas, Pahlavas, Bahlikas and Rishikas.

Yavanas, Sakas, Pahlavas and Hunas were sometimes described as Mlechhas.

) and the invasion ( A. D. 100 ) of the Scythic tribes known as the Sakas, Pahlavas and Yavanas, which led to the establishment of the power of the Kshaharata satraps in western India.

This reference apparently alludes to chaotic political scenario following the collapse of Mauryan and Sunga dynasties in northern India and its subsequent occupation by foreign hordes of the Yavanas, Kambojas, Sakas and Pahlavas etc.

Manusmriti lists the Yavanas with the Kambojas, Sakas, Pahlavas, Paradas etc.

These Pahlavas of Indo-Iranian descent would have migrated Southward and first settled in Krishna river valley of present day coastal Andhra Pradesh.

After another long pause he asked, `` How many people know who they are ''??

And the great majority of these people are of Anglo-Saxon or Celtic descent.

Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.

We are not now afraid of atomic bombs in the same way that people once feared comets.

We are worried about what people may do with them -- that some crazy fool may `` push the button ''.

Our inability to explain why certain people are fond of us frequently induces the same kind of ritual and malaise.

But people can't be made to integrate, socialize ( the two are inseparable by Southern standards ) by law.

Poirot and his counterparts are perfectly respectable people ; ;

Presumably a cocktail party is expected to fulfill the host's desire to get together a number of people who are inadequately acquainted and thereby arrange for bringing the level of acquaintance up to adequacy for future cooperative endeavors.

The completeness of the connections provide that, for N people, there are Af lines of communication between the pairs, which can become a large number ( 1,225 ) for a party of fifty guests.

Here, in two nations alone, are almost five hundred million people, all working, and working hard, to raise their standards, and in doing so, to make of themselves a strong bulwark against the spread of an ideology that would destroy liberty.

We must avoid the notion, suggested to some people by examples such as those just mentioned, that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable to coins or counters that can be passed intact from one group of people to another or even, for that matter, from one individual to another.

I found myself becoming one of that group of people who, in Carlyle's words, `` are forever gazing into their own navels, anxiously asking ' Am I right, am I wrong ' ''??

There are some people, intelligent people, who seem to be untouched by the sea of wonder in which we are immersed and in which we spend our lives.

and the young people should not even be permitted to see comedies till they are old enough to drink strong wine and sit at the public tables.

The selective and directional qualities of basic value-orientations are clearly evident in these data: the `` success-oriented '' students choose vocational preparation, the `` other-directed '' choose goals of social adjustment ( `` getting along with people '' ), the `` intellectuals '' choose a liberal arts emphasis.

The students who are most willing to acquiesce in the suppression of civil liberties are also those who are most likely to be prejudiced against minority groups, to be conformist and traditionalistic in general social attitudes, and to lack a basic faith in people.