The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c16.40
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c16.40
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c16.40
Philippos was then appointed satrap of the conquered nations; and the fleet, passing the third confluence, where the Hyphasis contributed its waters to the stream, continued its voyage to the fourth confluence, that of the Akesinēs (Chināb), including the Hydaspes (Jihlam), Hydraōtes (Rāvī), and Hyphasis (Biās), with the river which the ancient writers call the Indus. But it is probable that the ‘lost river of Sind’, the Hakrā or Wahindah, then existed, and that all the Panjāb rivers, including the Indus, joined it, and formed one great stream, afterwards known as the Mihrān of Sind.