The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c26.s1.46

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¹ The exact limits of the reign of Mithradates I are not known. Justin (xli, 6) states that 'almost at the same time that Mithradates ascended the throne among the Parthians, Eukratides began to reign among the Bactrians; both of them being great men'. The text of the passage in Orosius is: ‘Mithradates, tunc siquidem, rex Parthorum sextus ab Arsace, victo Demetrii praefecto Babylonam urbem finesque eius universos victor invasit. Omnes praeterea gentes quae inter Hydaspen fluvium et Indum iacent subegit’ (Bk. v, ch. iv, sec. 16; ed. Zangemeister, Vienna, 1883). The event may be dated about 138 B. C., towards the close of the reign of Mithradates. Nachfolger, p. 140. Von Gutschmid compares the name Maues or Mauas with that of Mauakēs (v. l. Mabakēs), who commanded the Śaka contingent of mounted archers in the army of Darius at Gaugamela or Arbela (Arrian. *Anab.*, iii, 8). The chronology is discussed in *J. R. A. S.*, 1903, p. 46, and in *Z. D. M. G.*, 1906, pp. 49–72. In the light of his discoveries at Taxila, Marshall varies the chronology hitherto accepted, discussing the subject in *Ann. Rep. A. S. India for 1912–13* and very fully in *J. P. H. S.*, vol. iii. In this edition I have followed his view, particularly in regard to the date of Kanishka, which agrees with that of Sten Konow (‘Indoskythische Beiträge’ in *Sitzungs-*