Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c6.7
Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarát c6.7
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After Samprati, whose reign ended about B.C. 197, a blank of seventeen years occurs in Gujarāt history. The next available information shows traces of Baktrian-Greek sway over parts of Gujarāt. In his description of Sarastrene or Surashtra the author of the Periplus (A.D. 240) says: 'In this part there are preserved even to this day memorials of the expedition of Alexander, old temples, foundations of camps, and large wells.'³ As Alexander did not come so far south as Káthiáwáda and as after Alexander's departure the Mauryas held Káthiáwáda till about B.C. 197, it may be suggested that the temples camps and wells referred to by the author of the Periplus were not memorials of the expedition of Alexander but remains of later Baktrian-Greek supremacy.