Historical help needed.

[Indus Pakistan]

Hello my Iranian friends. I am interested in Pakistan history and have been looking at this land ( Indus Basin ) in the past. Pakistan was birthplace of Harappa and Mohenjo Daro civilizations
Howeve at times after that this the land that is now Pakistan came under Persian control. Please have a look below. Can you see how Persian Satrapes of Gedrosia, Hindush ( India ) Arachosia, Gandhara and Sattagydia proximate with modern Pakistan. Can any Persian speakers please tell me what exact names were used in Persian for the land that is now Pakistan from those Archeamenid records - If any? Thanks.

Those Persian satrapes listed today are Gedrosia ( Balochistan) Hindush ( Sindh ) Sattagydia ( Punjab ) Gandhara/Arachosia 9 Khyber Paktunkhwa provinces of Pakistan.

As you can see modern Pakistan forms the eastern limit of Persian Empire and Alexanders conquest.

 

[Serpentine]

Can any Persian speakers please tell me what exact names were used in Persian for the land that is now Pakistan from those Archeamenid records - If any? Thanks.

This is how the names were spelled in Persian, I'll write it as spelled. Since some names are Hellenized, they'd seem different or even changed.

Gedrosia = Gadruzi

India = was called Hindush in Persian as one of Satraps.

Sattagydia = Sata Gush.

Gandara = Gandareh

Aria (Areia) = Hariveh

Baktriane = Bakhtar (Persian) = Bakhtrish (Old Persian)

Arakhosia = Rokhaj (called today) = Hraviti (Old Persian)

I hope it helped.

 

[Kambojaric]

This is how the names were spelled in Persian, I'll write it as spelled. Since some names are Hellenized, they'd seem different or even changed.

Gedrosia = Gadruzi

India = was called Hindush in Persian as one of Satraps.

Sattagydia = Sata Gush.

Gandara = Gandareh

Aria (Areia) = Hariveh

Baktriane = Bakhtar (Persian) = Bakhtrish (Old Persian)

Arakhosia = Rokhaj (called today) = Hraviti (Old Persian)

I hope it helped.

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

This is how the names were spelled in Persian, I'll write it as spelled. Since some names are Hellenized, they'd seem different or even changed.

Gedrosia = Gadruzi

India = was called Hindush in Persian as one of Satraps.

Sattagydia = Sata Gush.

Gandara = Gandareh

Aria (Areia) = Hariveh

Baktriane = Bakhtar (Persian) = Bakhtrish (Old Persian)

Arakhosia = Rokhaj (called today) = Hraviti (Old Persian)

I hope it helped.

Thanks. Just some clarification. The Archaemenid Satrapy Hindush ( India ) proximates to Pakistan province of Sindh. Sata Gush Pakistan province of Punjab.

Does "Sata" mean seven? And what does "Gush" mean? Punjab means five rivers so I am wondering what Persian "Sara Gush" translates into if any ?

 

[Serpentine]

Thanks. Just some clarification. The Archaemenid Satrapy Hindush ( India ) proximates to Pakistan province of Sindh. Sata Gush Pakistan province of Punjab.

Does "Sata" mean seven? And what does "Gush" mean? Punjab means five rivers so I am wondering what Persian "Sara Gush" translates into if any ?

Most of them don't have a meaning in modern Persian. Sata is meaningless, gush means ear, but I don't think that meaning is used in the name. Old Persian is a difficult language today, although many words have their roots in old language, but thelly have significantly changed in the process. It's like old English, which is not understandable today by a native English speaker.

 

[Arminkh]

Thanks. Just some clarification. The Archaemenid Satrapy Hindush ( India ) proximates to Pakistan province of Sindh. Sata Gush Pakistan province of Punjab.

Does "Sata" mean seven? And what does "Gush" mean? Punjab means five rivers so I am wondering what Persian "Sara Gush" translates into if any ?

Sata is modern Persian word "Sad" or 100. I'm not sure about Gush. but if it is the same that we use today, (besides ear) it means corner and then Sata Gush means "100-corner" which may refer to the geographical shape of the area. For example "Chahar Gush" or "4 corner" is used today in Modern Persian to refer to squares, rectangles or any other shapes in general with four sides and four corners. "Se Goush" is simply Triangle.

As Serpentine mentioned above Persian language has evolved greatly over the past 2000 years. Some of the words are not even used anymore.

Hope this helps.

 

[Takaavar]

I know some Old Persian.
@Atanz: bro, your answer is in the second map you posted, the list below of it has listed the names.Those words in parantheses are their equivalent in Old Persian language. The satrapies are listed in several Old Persian inscriptions, particularly those of Darius, which you can find their text by googling. In some of them, while listing the satraps, it specifically says " ... and the lands across The Sea: ..." and lists the names of the satrapies across/near the Indian Ocean.
So,
Gandhara is Gandâra (spelled Gadâra in OP, though)
Sattagydia is Grecized form of Thatagush. The "sh" (or "ush"/"ish") is a grammatical ending. The "y" in the Greek form suggest that the "u" was part of the word, and was pronounced as long u (OP cuneiform does not differentiate between short and long u and i in writing) The word "thata-" means "hundred", but it is not necessarilly an Old Persian word. Note that we don't know much about Old Persian, it is a relatively unknown, and partly reconstructed language (relative to Avestan & Sanskrit which are well-documented).
Gedrosia's equivalent is "Maka", the name for Balochestan (or it may have been the name for satrapy of Oman and the division was later expanded to embrace Balochistan as well, we are not sure)

Aria is Harauvatish, it's an Iranian word.

India is Hindush (spelled Hiduš), it is the Iranicized form of the Sanskrit "Sindhu-"

Edit: many sources over the internet says thataguš means "[land of] hundred cows" ("cow" is "gau-" in OP)

And Arachosia was Harauvatiš (the base form being Harauvatī-). The Greek form is from the non-OP by-form Haraxvatī- though, Iranica has an article on the web discussing the name.