Abstract
Hazara, the ancient 'Urasha' or 'Uraga' , is the northernmost division of the North West Frontier Province
of Pakistan. Situated to the east of the river Indus, it lies between latitude 330 44' and 350 10' and
longitude 720 33' and 740 6'. It consists of a territory between the rivers Indus and Jhelum with an
area of 2, 858 square miles (or 3,062 including Tanawal) (Imperial Gazetteer of India, North West
Frontier Province 1907 hereafter IGI: 126; Hazara District Gazetteer 1883-4: l). Cunningham (1990,
I: 87-88) places Hazara between Taxila and Kashmir. The name 'Urasha' still survives in the plain of
Orash or Rash; while the word 'Uraga' of the Mahabharata stands for lake. It has a close similarity
to the name Orasha. Ptolemy calls the district 'Apoa or Ovapoa or Varsha Regio' describing it as the
country between the rivers Bidaspes (or Jhelum) and the Indus (Beal 1981: 147, fn 84; IGI: 119).
IHSAN ALI, ABID-UR-RAHMAN, MEHIR RAHMAN . (2009) Archaeological Survey of District Abbottabad 2006-07: A Preliminary Report , Pakistan Heritage, Volume 1, Issue 1.
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