Sambastae
Σαμβασταί
Sambastae (Σαμβασταί), one of the many small tribes in the district of Pattalene mentioned by Arrian (6.15) as noticed by Alexander and his. troops near the mouths of the Indus. It has been conjectured that the present ruins of Sewistan or Schwan indicate the site of the chief fortress of this people; and Burnes appears to believe that this is the same place noticed by Curtius (9.8)as a stronghold of the Brachmani (Burnes, Travels in Bokhara, iii. p. 57).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.