The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c25.15

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As soon as the snow was melted enough to make the Khawak Pass practicable, the Yavana army trailed up the Panjshir valley⁴, leaving little bodies of Europeans behind it to hold the Kābul valley under a Persian satrap and a Macedonian *episkopos*. The main body of the army once more contended with the hardships of a passage over the high ridges and disappeared to the northwards. During the following twelve months (May 328 to May 327) such news of it as reached India showed that the Yavana king still prevailed against all enemies. As far as the Syr Daria (Jaxartes) the peoples of Eastern Īrān were broken before him. In the early spring of 327 he was again moving to the south.