The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c26.s1.56

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But petty Parthian principalities may have continued to exist for some time longer in the delta of the Indus. The author of the *Periplus of the Erythraean Sea*, writing about A. D. 70, found the valley of the Lower Indus, which he called Scythia, under the rule of Parthian chiefs, engaged in unceasing internecine strife. The Indus at that time had seven mouths, of which only the central one was navigable. The commercial port, known to the traveller as Barbarikon, was situated upon this stream; and the capital, Minnagar, lay inland. The extensive changes which have occurred in the rivers of Sind during the course of eighteen centuries preclude the possibility of satisfactory identifications of either of these towns.²