The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c12.96

c12.96

¹ Arrian (v, 20) gives the true account of the death of Boukephalos. The site of Boukephala was determined, to my satisfaction, by Abbott ('On the Sites of Nikaia and Boukephala', *J. A. S. B.* 1852, p. 231). The mound referred to is known locally as 'Pindi', or 'the town', and yields large ancient bricks and numerous Graeco-Bactrian coins. Boukephala is mentioned in the Peutingerian Tables, by Pliny (vi, 20) and the author of the *Periplus* (ch. 47), as well as by Plutarch (*Fortune of Alexander*, Oration I, 9). Cunningham's identifications of the two towns are necessarily rejected as being based upon the theory that the passage of the river was effected at Jalālpur.