The Greeks in Bactria and India c21.24

c21.24

Kabul, and Kophene, though the actual word does not occur, must have been the Greek name of the Kabul eparchy of the Paropamisadae satrapy under the Seleucids; several eparchy names in that satrapy are known (pp. 96 *sq.*), but the Kabul name is missing. Stephanus’ mistaken identification of the town Arachosia with Kophen (Kabul) arose therefore, not merely from the fact that the two towns were stations on the same great route from Seistan to Alexandria-Kapisa, but from the fact that in Demetrius’ reign both were for a time under the same sub-kings (Pantaleon, Agathocles, see pp. 157 *sq.*) and both subsequently formed part of the kingdom of the Parsii, a kingdom known to some source of Ptolemy (presumably ‘Trogus’ source’), if his Gazaka or Gauzaka¹ be the native name of Alexandria-Ghazni;² for he puts this place in the Paropamisadae, which (as Ghazni was certainly in Arachosia) here means the kingdom ruled from Kabul.