The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s6.86

c10.s6.86

About 60 B.C., probably before Maues died, the Sacas conquered Mathurā, and the Indian kings are followed by Saca satraps, the best known being Hagāmasha and Hagāna;⁴ they in turn were followed by a Saca Great Satrap, Rājuvula (once read Rañjubula) of the coins,⁵ Rājuvula or Rājula of the inscriptions,⁶ who imitated the money of the two Stratos; the change in style may have some connection with Azes’ conquest of the eastern Greek kingdom (p. 349). The dates mean that the Sacas reached Mathurā quite independently of their advance up the Indus, perhaps from Malva across Rajputana by Ajmer. Attention has already been called to their numbers; their invasion differed from that of the Greeks in being a regular conquest, and their strength is shown by the manner in which some of the states they founded lasted far into the Christian Era.⁷ There is nothing to show that when the Sacas reached Mathurā c. 60 B.C. the eastern Greeks had lost Sāgala; they still ruled everything between the Jhelum and the Ravi.