The Greeks in Bactria and India c24.26

c24.26

Stephanus *s.v.* calls Carmania ‘a country of India’. It was never ruled from India; the notice is one of a class in Stephanus, like ‘Gerrha, a city of the Chaldeans’ or ‘Barygaza, the emporium of Gedrosia’ (p. 260), which refer to close trading connections; it shows that at some time Carmania (the Amanis country) was neither Seleucid nor Parthian (i.e. was independent) and was an emporium for the Indian trade, as I have worked out.