The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c25.148

v1.c25.148

Still down the unending stream the Europeans floated or marched, through the territories of other tribes whose names our books record in the form the Greek tongue gave them—Abastanes, Xathri, Ossadii—who submitted in prudence or by compulsion. At length they came to the last confluence, where the Acesines, carrying in it the waters of the other three rivers, united in those days with the Indus and a single vast stream rolled down towards the ocean. Here again the armament halted, some time in the cold season at the beginning of 325 B.C. The great shifting of the river beds in this region makes it impossible to know the site to-day. The point seemed one for planting another Hellenistic city. Alexander foresaw it in the age to come a great place of traffic, rich and splendid. This point too seemed to be a fit southern limit for the satrapy of Philip, reaching northwards as it did to the foothills of the Himālayas above Takshaçilā. A change was also made in the governorship of the province of the Hindu Kush (Paropanisadae). Tyriespes was replaced by another great Irānian lord, Alexander's father-in-law, Oxyartes, who arrived in camp about this time¹.