Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c17.s3.34

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⁵ Isidore of Charax who mentions the revolt of Tiridates against Phraates (26 B.C.) and is quoted by Pliny (Schoff, *Parthian Stations*, pp. 5, 13 ff, 17; *JRAS*, 1904, 706; 1906, 180; 1912, 990, refers (*Parthian Stations*, 9, para 18, *ZDMG.*, 1906, pp. 57-58; *JRAS.*, 1915, p. 831; Tarn, *The Greeks in Bactria and India*, 53) to Sigal in Sacastene (near Kandahar?) as the royal residence of the Sakas (not Parthians) about the beginning of the Christian era. The names of the brother or brothers and nephew of Vonones, (or Maues) ruling in southern Afghanistan seem to be Scythian (*cf.* Rapson quoted in *Corpus* II. 1, xlii). Thus the local rulers of southern Afghanistan about B.C. 26 or a little later were probably Sakas. It is, however, possible that they acknowledged the supremacy of the great king of Parthia.