The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s4.17

c10.s4.17

In the north, Menander’s treaty with Eucratides had left Alexandria-Kapisa to the latter and presumably therefore the Paropamisadae (p. 217). Certainly numbers of Menander’s coins are said to come into Begram,⁴ but the amount of trade passing through that gateway of the West would account for a good deal, and with a coinage so enormous and widespread as his the mere presence of used coins is little guide; had he ruled wherever his coins have been found he would have been king in Pembrokeshire,⁵ and his coins from Begram cannot compare with the vast numbers of those of Eucratides collected in that district. It is plain enough that he ruled from Mathurā to the Upper Indus; and his rule over Gandhāra is now proved also (see Addenda).