[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) › c16.62 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c16.62 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c16.62 - **Language:** English ### [c16.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16.62) ² Bahmanābād, Bahmannih, or Bahmannū, not Brahmanābād, as commonly and erroneously written. Under the name of Bahmanābād it was founded by Bahman, son of Isfandiyār, ‘in the time of Gushtāsib, ruler of Irān-Zamīn’. Bahman is another name of Artaxerxes Longimanus, or Ahasuerus, who reigned from about 465 to 425 B. C. (Raverty, \*Notes\*, p. 510; Reinaud, \*Ind. Ant.\*, viii, 336). He was the grandson of Gushtāsib. But the site is much more ancient, and includes extensive prehistoric remains (\*Progress Report, Arch. Survey W. I.\* for 1896–7, par. 30–50; ibid., for 1903–4, pp. 133–44). The site of Bahmanābād was discovered by Mr. Bellasis in 1854 (\*Jo. Bo. Br. R. A. S.\*, Jan., 1856). Mansūriya has been built from, and partly on, the ruins of the primitive city (Cousens, \*Annual Rep. A. S. W., India\*, 1903–4, pp. 132–44; 1908–9, pp. 79–87). Raverty's discursive note 105 (op. cit., pp. 196–205) gives much information. For the position of the apex of the Delta, and the city of Patala, see ibid., pp. 226, 461, 462. General Haig, who greatly underestimates the growth of the Delta, is certainly wrong in placing Patala below the latitude of Hyderābād (N. lat. 25° 23′, E. long. 68° 25′). The same writer was not aware of the evidence which led Raverty to place the most ancient known apex of the Delta 40 miles above Bahmanābād (\*The Indus Delta Country\*, pp. 1, 129, 135, 136, Kegan Paul & Co., 1894). Most books (e. g. Balfour's \*Cyclopaedia\*) erroneously identify Patala with Hyderābād. - [Previous: c16.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16.61) - [Next: c16.63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16.63) - [Up: c16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16) ## Linked texts (1) - [Brahmanabad (Mansura, Sindh)](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.brahmanabad) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16.62) · Pramāṇa