The Greeks in Bactria and India c35.2

c35.2

Abdagases, 335 *n.*, 353-4 Abgar dynasty, 485 Abhīras, 171-2, 235-6, 238, 259, 380 Abiria, 172, 232-3, 235, 237-8, 240, 320, 380, 501 Achaea (town). *See* Heracleia Achaeus, 202 Achriane, 444 Adiabene, 2, 4, 64 Aelius Gallus, 444 Aemilius Paullus, 194, 207 Afghanistan, 155 Agathocleia, 78, 225-7, 230, 312, 317; ‘godlike’, 249, 265; coins, 226, 249, 271, 330, 356 Agathocles, 76-8, 87, 227; sub-king, 95, 156-7, 199; coins and types, 132, 138, 157-62, 213, 461; no Buddhist symbolism, 160; relation to Taxila’s coins, 161; his pedigree coins, 201, 263, 439-40, 450-1, 504, 506; described and explained, 447-8 Agathocles of Seleuceia, 40 Agelasseis, 251 Agesilas, 355, 392 *n.* Agni-Karachar, 289 Aias, 164 Ajātasattu, 415 Ajmer, 155, 325 Alai valley, 84 Alans, 278, 307 Alasanda, 420-1. *See* Alexandria of the Caucasus, Alexandria in Egypt Alexander: and Persia, 1; and Iran, 32, 125, 410; and nomads, 81, 291, 479; territorial arrangements, 94, 100; settlers, 35; foundations, 6-8, 18 (*see* Alexandria): in Seistan-Arachosia, 14, 94, 470-1; in Bactria-Sogdiana, 115, 118-19; in the Paropamisadae, 97, 99, 140, 460-2; in India, 16, 168, 243-4; Alexander in Bactria-Sogdiana, 115-19, 124, 410, 475-6; crosses Hindu Kush, 139-40; conquests in India, 142-3, 167-9; Alexander in India, 129-31, 371; and Brahmans, 173; questions to gymnosophists, 428-33, 435; divinity, 92; ἀνίκητος, 132; ‘reconciler of the world’, 181, 411; in the fictitious Seleucid pedigree, 446-7; stories and legends, 148, 155, 164, 170, 260, 266, 481-2 Alexander-descents, in the West, 446, 449-51; the Euthydemids, 201, 447-8; in Bactria, 302-3, 448-9; in India, 235, 325, 408 *Alexander-Romance*, the, 59, 168 *n.*, 429-31, 449 Alexander II (Seleucid), 206 *n.* Alexander Balas, 40 Alexandria-Bactra, 115, 118. *See* Bactra. Alexandria-Bucephala, 16. *See* Bucephala Alexandria in Carmania, 481-2 Alexandria of the Caucasus, 49, 96, 139, 243, 334, 341, 353, 420-1, 507; discussed, 97-8, 140, 460-2. *See* Alexandria-Kapisa Alexandria (Charax), 17. *See* Charax Spasinu Alexandria on the Chenab, 168, 247. *See* Iomousa. Alexandria in Egypt, 18, 22, 23 *n.*, 49, 421-2, 433 *n.*, 434-5 Alexandria-Eschate, 118. *See* Chodjend Alexandria-Ghazni, 54, 94, 470, 472, and see Ghazni Alexandria-Kapisa, 61, 99, 104, 137, 139-40, 157-8, 161, 216-17, 228, 270, 441, 472; mint, 98, 438, 503 Alexandria in Margiane, 72. *See* Merv Alexandria of the Oxus, 118 Alexandria-Prophthasia, 14. *See* Prophthasia Alexandrias on the Indus, 168, 243 Alexandropolis (the name), 7, 11; near Sacastene, 471, *see* Kandahar Alexandrovski Range, 111, 276, 516 Alexarchus, 12, 92, 210 Altai, 105 Amanis river, 261, 481-2, 484 Amarkot, 165, 318 Ambala, 239 Amitābha, 379