The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c25.46

v1.c25.46

The loot in cattle in these regions was enormous, and we are told that a herd of the finest animals was actually given by Alexander into the charge of drovers who were to drive them all the way from the Hindu Kush to Macedonia. A town called by the Greeks Arigaeon, which apparently commanded the road between the Kūnar and the Panjkora Valleys, was selected for recolonisation—a number of war-worn Europeans and a number of the native people were to form the population, as in similar cases before.