Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 58, Shloka 30
Adhyaya 58 — The Kurma-Form of Narayana: Mapping Bharata through Nakshatras, Regions, and Planetary Afflictions
कम्बोजाः पहलवाश्चैव तथैव वहवामुखाः ।
तथा च सिन्धुसौवीराः सानर्ता वनितामुखाः ॥
kāmbojāḥ pahlavāś caiva tathaiva vahavāmukhāḥ | tathā ca sindhu-sauvīrāḥ sānartā vanitāmukhāḥ ||
迦摩婆阇（Kāmboja）与帕诃罗婆（Pahlava），又有婆诃婆阿目佉（Vahavāmukha）；并且信度—娑毗罗（Sindhu-Sauvīra）、阿那尔多（Ānarta）与婆尼多阿目佉（Vanitāmukha）亦被列举。
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FAQs
By listing frontier and ‘foreign’ groups, the Purāṇa depicts Bhārata’s world as porous and interconnected—politically and culturally—rather than isolated.
Bhū-varṇana (geographical description), an auxiliary Purāṇic layer.
The inclusion of distant peoples can symbolize the extension of cosmic order to the margins—dharma as a universalizing principle.