Abisares

Abisares(or Abhisara (अभिसार);[1][2] was a Kashmiri king of abhira descent,[3] beyond the river Hydaspes, whose territory wad laid in the mountains. Dr. Stein identifies the kingdom of Abhisara with the tract of the lower and middle hills between the Vitasta (Jhelum) and Chadrabhaga (Chenab) including the state of Rajapuri (Rajauri) in Kasmira.[4][5][6] The old kingdom of Abhisara was originally situated in the Poonch,[7] Rajauri[8] and Nowshera districts of Jammu and Kashmir.[9]

References

Chisholm, Hugh (1910). "Alexander III (Alexander the Great)". Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition. 1.
Diodorus, Bibliotheca, xvii. 90
Enthoven, Reginald Edward (1990). The Tribes and Castes of Bombay. ISBN 9788120606302.
Encyclopaedia of ancient Indian geography By Subodh Kapoor-page-3
Kapoor, Subodh (2002). Encyclopaedia of Ancient Indian Geography. ISBN 9788177552980.
Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, v. 8, 20, 29; Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, viii. 12-14, ix. 1, x. 1
Political History of Ancient India: From the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty, 1953, p 248, Hemchandra Raychaudhuri, University of Calcutta
The Mahābhārata, Its Genesis and Growth: A Statistical Study, 1986, p 115, M. R. Yardi, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute - Mahābhārata; Military History of India, 1980, p 38, Hemendra Chandra Kar - History
Journal of Indian History, 1969, p 123, University of Kerala Dept. of History, University of Allahabad Dept. of Modern Indian History, University of Travancore, University of Kerala - India.

Other sources

Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Abisares", Boston, (1867)
Waldemar Heckel: Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great. Prosopography of Alexander's empire. Blackwell, Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-1-4051-1210-9 (excerpt online)

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[EB-1] Chisholm, Hugh (1910). "Alexander III (Alexander the Great)". Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition. 1.

[2] Diodorus, Bibliotheca, xvii. 90

[3] Enthoven, Reginald Edward (1990). The Tribes and Castes of Bombay. ISBN 9788120606302.

[4] Encyclopaedia of ancient Indian geography By Subodh Kapoor-page-3

[5] Kapoor, Subodh (2002). Encyclopaedia of Ancient Indian Geography. ISBN 9788177552980.

[6] Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, v. 8, 20, 29; Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, viii. 12-14, ix. 1, x. 1

[7] Political History of Ancient India: From the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty, 1953, p 248, Hemchandra Raychaudhuri, University of Calcutta

[8] The Mahābhārata, Its Genesis and Growth: A Statistical Study, 1986, p 115, M. R. Yardi, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute - Mahābhārata; Military History of India, 1980, p 38, Hemendra Chandra Kar - History

[9] Journal of Indian History, 1969, p 123, University of Kerala Dept. of History, University of Allahabad Dept. of Modern Indian History, University of Travancore, University of Kerala - India.