[11] The region around ancient Pushkulavati was recorded in the Zoroastrian Zend Avesta as Vaēkərəta, or the seventh most beautiful place on earth created by Ahura Mazda.

[19] Reinhard Dittman (1984) suggested that the earliest appearance of the "Lotus bowl" in Bala Hisar belongs to the time of Alexander the Great up to the beginning of the Mauryan times, late 4th to early 3rd centuries BCE, but according to Cameron Petrie (2013), a post-Achaemenid date around the late 4th to the 2nd centuries BCE is likely.

[25] Two early Buddhist manuscripts were acquired among a group of twenty‐seven birch‐bark scrolls, in 1994 by the British Library, possibly found in a Dharmaguptaka monastery in Hadda, Afghanistan.

[28] These two manuscripts, known as avadanas, and written in Gandhari language around 1st century CE (now in the British Library Collection of Gandharan Scrolls)[29] mention the name of the city as Pokhaladi.

[34] The monk Hui Li also commented Xuanzang's visit to the east of the town Po-shih-kie-lo-fa-ti (Pushkalavati) where there was a stupa built by king Ashoka, in the location which four past Buddhas preached.

The name Prang was considered by Ahmad Hasan Dani as ultimately derived from the word Prayag, meaning "confluence", via an intermediate contracted form *Prag.

[40]: 7 In the concluding portion of the (Ramayana) Uttarakanda or Supplemental Book, the descendants of Rama and his brothers are described as the receivers of the great cities and kingdoms which flourished in Western India.

[41] Thus according to Hindu legend, the sons of Bharata received kingdoms that flourished on either side of the Indus river, which were conquered by their father.