[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) › c26.12 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c26.12 The Greeks in Bactria and India c26.12 - **Language:** English ### [c26.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26.12) ¹ Strabo XI, 498. Seleucus’ alleged intention to connect the Caspian and the Black Sea by a canal (Pliny VI, 31) meant connecting the Cyrus and the Phasis by a waterway to do away with this land porterage and avoid breaking bulk. The Soviet government to-day have a plan to connect the Caspian and the Sea of Azov by a ship canal (the Manych canal) a long way to the north of the Cyrus (N. Mikhaylov, \*Soviet geography\* 1935 p. 192 and Plan p. 185); but this goes far beyond anything which Seleucus can have dreamt of, and would traverse country unknown to him. - [Previous: c26.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26.11) - [Next: c26.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26.13) - [Up: c26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26.12) · Pramāṇa