The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c24.179

v1.c24.179

In regard to the supposed campaign of Cyrus in Baluchistān, we may note that Arrian (*Anab.* III, 27, 4–5) mentions the story, recorded elsewhere in connexion with Alexander's exploits, that Cyrus had received substantial help from the Ariaspian people (a tribe dwelling in a region that corresponds to the modern Seistān) when he was waging war in these territories against the Scythians². This folk received from him in consequence the honorific title *Euergetae*, 'Benefactors,' a term answering to the Persian designation *Orosangae* mentioned by Herodotus (VIII, 85)³.