Āgreya

What is attested

Excavation and surface finds at Agroha, in the Hisar district of Haryana, have produced a coinage with a Brahmi legend read as naming the Āgreya or Agacha people, dated to about the second century BCE. The site is a substantial early historic mound, occupied over a long period.

The Alexander historians describe a people they call the Agalassoi who resisted the Macedonians in the Punjab and, according to one account, burnt their own town rather than submit. The identification with the Āgreyas is proposed on the strength of the name and is not certain; the Greek accounts of Indian peoples are transmitted at several removes and their names are often unmatchable.

Agroha later became associated with the Agrawal community, which traces its origin to the site and to a king Agrasena. That tradition is medieval and later in form and is not evidence about the ancient polity.