[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924) › c16.41 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c16.41 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c16.41 - **Language:** English ### [c16.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16.41) It is absolutely impossible to determine the position of any of the confluences in Alexander’s time; but, long afterwards, in the days of the early Arab writers, all the rivers met at a place called Dosh-i-āb, or ‘the Meeting of the Waters’, in territory now belonging to the Bahāwalpur State.¹ Our complete uncertainty as to the courses of the rivers, which have ranged, as the old channels indicate, over a space of 110 miles wide in the region of the final confluence, deprives the remainder of Alexander’s river voyage of much of its interest. His course in Upper Sind cannot be indicated even approximately, and it is impossible to fix accurately the position of either the towns or the nations mentioned by the historians. - [Previous: c16.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16.40) - [Next: c16.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16.42) - [Up: c16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16.41) · Pramāṇa