The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c30.s1.30

v1.c30.s1.30

It is clear that such warlike inroads were followed by no permanent occupation of the Midland Country, and that the period of military conquest, in which they are ineffective episodes, belongs to the earlier part of the second century B.C., when the Yavāna power was as yet undivided by internecine strife. But the struggle of Greek with Greek was not long delayed. The conflict between the rival houses in Bactria was decided in favour of Eucratides; and the third Yavāna invasion under his leadership deprived the princes of the house of Euthydemus of their dominions in Kābul and Kandahār (the Paropanisadae and Arachosia) and in N.W. India (Gandhāra).