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² Vigne, *A Personal Narrative of a Visit to Ghazni, Kabul and Afghanistan* (1843), p. 11. Mr. H. L. Shuttleworth, I.C.S., informs me by letter dated Feb. 15, 1914, that he has examined the course of the Biās for 50 miles from the point where it leaves the hills to Mukerian ferry, and after considering all possible sites for the altars has come to the conclusion given in the text. He further states in a letter dated May 19, 1914, that no inscription or other material relic connects the Greeks with any of the three sites in Kāngrā and Mandi associated by tradition with Sikandar, who probably may be Sikandar Lodi as suggested by Moorcroft, and not Alexander the Great as supposed by Vigne. It is also to be remembered that Sultān Sikandar, the fierce iconoclastic king of Kashmīr, reigned from 1394–1420, and gave people good cause to remember him.