The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s4.15

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² The story comes from Kālidāsa’s drama *Mālavikāgnimitra* (*CHI* p. 520) and is late, but most writers (not all) have accepted it as history; it makes little difference in any case, for it is certain that Menander held Mathurā, both from Ptolemy (p. 245) and from a hoard of 96 coins of his son Strato I found there (S. P. Noe, *A bibliography of Greek coin-hoards*, *NNM* 1925 p. 126), beside his own coins (p. 227 n. 3). Some have maintained that Kālidāsa’s Sindhu was the Indus, which historically is nonsense; also the Indus has no south bank, though R. C. Mazumdar, *IHQ* 1925 pp. 214 *sqq.*, says that we must suppose it had in the second century B.C.