The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c16.96

c16.96

When the second partition of the empire was effected at Triparadeisos in 321 B. C., Antipater practically recognized the independence of India by appointing the native kings Pōros and Āmbhi as a matter of form to the charge of the Indus valley and Panjāb. Peithōn, whom Alexander had appointed satrap of the Indus Delta, was transferred to the provinces ‘which bordered on the Paropanisadai’, i. e. to Arachosia, &c., west of the Indus, and India was abandoned by the Macedonian government in reality, though not in name.² Eudēmos, alone of the Macedonian officers, retained some authority in the Indus valley until about 317.³