The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c12.6
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c12.6
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³ Alexandria 'under the Caucasus', or 'in the Paropanisadai', to distinguish it from the numerous other towns of the same name. The exact position cannot be determined, but its site *may* be marked by the extensive ruins at Opiān or Houpiān, near Chārikar, some thirty miles northward from Kābul. The old identification with Bāmiān is certainly erroneous (McCrindle, *Invasion of India by Alexander the Great*, 2nd ed., p. 58, and note A; Cunningham, *Anc. Geog. India*, pp. 21–6). Von Schwarz identifies Alexandria in the Paropanisadai with Kābul (*Alexander des Grossen Feldzüge in Turkestan*, pp. 94, 101, 102).