[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Greeks in Bactria and India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938) › c23.20 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c23.20 The Greeks in Bactria and India c23.20 - **Language:** English ### [c23.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c23.20) We now have to ask why the Chorasmii migrated from south to north against the general direction of all known Iranian migrations, and why they, a people living in northern Iran, had a king with a Persian (south Iranian) name. The hypothesis put forward in Chapter VII pp. 292 \*sqq.\* (to which I must refer) regarding the Pasiani-Parsii of Apollodorus will answer these questions: the Parsii (Parsua) were Persians who had stayed behind in Kwarizm when the rest of the Parsua-Persians went south, and the Chorasmii must have been a section or tribe of the Parsii. That is why the Chorasmii went \*north\* to Kwarizm; they had once migrated from it to the south and were now returning to their own people. That is why their chief had a Persian name; like the Parsii, they must have spoken some form of Persian. That is why they were in the Massagetae confederacy; the Parsii were members (p. 469). That is why their name died out in Greek writers; they were included in the Parsii. Though the Greeks had never had a name for the country of the Chorasmii, the Persians had; and that name, as the Mihr Yast shows, followed the Chorasmii to Kwarizm. I believe that my hypothesis covers all the facts at present known. - [Previous: c23.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c23.19) - [Next: c24.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c24.1) - [Up: c23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c23) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c23.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c23.20) · Pramāṇa