The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c16.46

c16.46

² The words διὰ τῆς Ἀραχωτῶν καὶ Δράγγων γῆς in the passage (Arrian, *Anab.* vi, 15) describing the transfer of Krateros from the right to the left bank were evidently a blundering marginal note which has crept into the text. Krateros was sent from a point above the head of the Delta ‘into Karmania by the route through the Arachotoi and Zarangoi’ (τὴν ἐπ’ Ἀραχωτῶν καὶ Ζαράγγων), as stated in ch. 17. McCrindle’s theory that Krateros was sent, as stated in ch. 15, and subsequently recalled, seems to me very unsatisfactory. I have already noted another corruption in the text of the same chapter, due probably to the same cause, the absorption into the text of an erroneous gloss.