The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.50

c5.50

181 Eukratidēs, the rival of Dēmētrios I. Justin states that the Indian conquests of Eukratidēs belong to the end of his reign, and that Dēmētrios ruled until nearly the same time. The coins of the former, found at Balkh, Sīstān, in the Kābul Valley, and the Panjab, seem, however, to show that Dēmētrios was early deprived of his Indian territories, and that Eukratidēs, for the greater part of his reign, ruled in India as well as over Baktria and Arakhōsia. Towards the end of it Mithridatēs I of Parthia seized the provinces of Turiūa and Aspionēs (situated probably in the district of the Tajand and Hari-rud). As coins of Eukratidēs are copied by Plato (probably a revolted satrap of his own), B.C. 165, and by Timarkhos of Babylon, B.C. 162, his reign may have extended to this or even a later year. Its beginning was, according to Justin, contemporary with that of Mithridatēs I (B.C. 171), but Bayer places it in B.C. 181. Eukratidēs founded the city of Eukratideia in Baktria.