The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c28.30

c28.30

For some fifteen or twenty years the Yüe-chi remained undisturbed in their usurped territory. But meantime their ancient enemies, the Hiung-nū, had protected the infant son of the slain Wu-sun chieftain, who had grown to manhood under their care. This youth, with Hiung-nū help, attacked the Yüe-chi, and avenged his father's death by driving them from the lands which they had wrested from the Sakas. Being thus forced to resume their march, the Yüe-chi moved into the valley of the Oxus, and reduced to subjection its peaceful inhabitants, known to the Chinese as Ta-hia. The political domination of the Yüe-chi probably was extended at once over Bactria, to the south of the Oxus, but the head-quarters of the horde continued for many years to be on the north side of the river, and the pastures on that side sufficed for the wants of the new-comers.