Can anyone point me to some up-to-date information about Śākadvīpīya brahmans? What did it mean to a twelfth to seventeenth-century author to identify himself as belonging to a Śākadvīpīya family? Would such a family have retained cultural links to Central Asia and Eastern Iran, to Seistan? I would have thought not. But is there any scholarly exploration of this issue?
Many thanks,
Dominik Wujastyk