The Greeks in Bactria and India c21.27

c21.27

It can now be seen what happened. After the Parthians, somewhere between 124 and 115, broke the Saca invasion, the invaders, who comprised more than one people, entered India not by one route but by two. The movements of the main body, who ultimately came up the Indus to Taxila, are noticed elsewhere (Chap. VIII). But another body, the Parsii, went north from Sacastene through Arachosia by Alexander’s route—we have been looking at the record—and ultimately took Kophen-Kabul from the Greeks. From their first contact with China dates the origin of the name Ki-pin.