The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c30.s1.19

v1.c30.s1.19

From Kābul ancient routes led, on the one hand, into the provinces of Ariāna—Aria (Herāt) on the west, and Arachosia (Kandahār) on the south-west—and, on the other hand, into India through Gandhāra (Peshāwar and Rāwalpindi) on the south-east. It is probable that the Yavana power expanded in all three directions; but it was in the second and third of these—to Arachosia and to India—that its progress was most marked. In these directions it must no doubt have followed the routes once trodden by the armies of Alexander the Great. The full extent of the Yavana conquests is described by Strabo (xi, 516) who quotes Apollodorus of Artemita, the author of a history of Parthia which has been lost: