The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s4.80

c10.s4.80

Latin Peucalei = Ποκλάεις of Ptol. VII, 1, 44; references collected in the Index to Renou, *La géographie de Ptolémée: l’Inde* s.v. Ποκλάεις (Peucolis of Pliny VI, 94 can however hardly be the same place). When Arrian, *Anab.* IV, 28, 6 (in the MSS), speaks of πόλιν Πευκελιῶτιν he is transferring the name of the province to the city, possibly because the Indian name for the city was Pushkalāvatī, which had become graecised as the province-name. But the Greek form Peucela finally affected the Indian form; on the unique autonomous coin of the city the Kharoshthi legend gives Pakhalavadi, *CHI* p. 587. To avoid confusion, I call the city Pushkalāvatī throughout, as that is usually done.