Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c11.124

c11.124

In regard to one point he is definitely wrong. The V and XIII Rock Edicts of Aśoka count among the north-western tribes who were included within the *rāja-vishaya*, and were subject to the jurisdiction of imperial officials, not only the Gandhāras but the Yonas. Association with the Kambojas and the Gandhāras suggests that these Yonas are the people of that name mentioned in the *Mahāvaṃśa* whose city Alasanda had been identified by Cunningham and Geiger with Alexandria in the country of the Paropamisadae near Kabul¹. When Strabo says that "the Indians held *much* of Ariana, having received it from the Macedonians", it is difficult to believe that he means only the comparatively narrow strip of territory that lay to the west of the Indus and east of a line drawn from the Kunar to the Purali.