The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c16.97

c16.97

² Diodorus, xviii, 39: ‘Antipater then divided the satrapies anew . . . and gave India, which bordered on the Paropanisadai, to Peithōn, the son of Agēnōr, and of the adjacent kingdoms he gave that which lay along the Indus to Pōros, and that along the Hydaspes to Taxiles, for it was impossible to remove their kings without royal troops under the command of some distinguished general.’ In this passage the names of Pōros and Taxiles (i. e. Āmbhi, king of Taxila) evidently have been transposed. The Indus valley would naturally fall to the share of the Taxilan king, rather than to Pōros, whose dominions lay to the east of the Hydaspes.