The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c24.s3.14

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The story of the foreign settlements in the regions now mostly included in the Bombay Presidency is fragmentary and obscure, but can be made out to some extent from study of coins and inscriptions. The earliest foreign ruler in the west whose name has been preserved was the Satrap Bhūmaka Kshaharāta, who struck coins with Parthian affinities, and may be presumed to have been subordinate to one or other of the Indo-Parthian kings, perhaps Gondophares. His exact date is not known, but he may be assigned approximately to the early years of the first century after Christ, and may have had predecessors. The Kshaharātas were connected with the Sakas, and may have immigrated from Sakastēnē, the modern Sīstān.