Regiment, in most armies, a body of troops headed by a colonel and organized for tactical control into companies, battalions, or squadrons.
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I think any relationship between the Indus Valley and the deep Dravidian south is unlikely because of the vast gap in space and time. About 2,000 years and 2,000 miles. But linguistically, if the Indus script is understood, we may hopefully find that the proto-Dravidian roots of the Harappa language and South Indian Dravidian languages are similar.
The answer would be the fourth option. The townspeople were throwing snow and other stuff at the soldiers who responded by shooting.