Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c16.26

v1.c16.26

¹ Many incidents in these journeys would require no aid of imagination to touch on the romantic, but they can have no place here. ² Eastern tableland. ³ Sind River. ⁴ Parbati River. ⁵ Kali Sind River. ⁶ Passage of the Chambal and junction of the Par. ⁷ The Shaikh brought me specimens of the rock, which is siliceous; and also a piece of brick of the very ancient fortress of Sehwan, and some of the grain from its pits, charred and alleged by tradition to have lain there since the period of Raja Bhartarihari, the brother of Vikramaditya. It is not impossible that it might be owing to Alexander’s terrific progress, and to their supplies being destroyed by fire. Sehwan is conjectured by Captain Pottinger to be the capital of Musicanus. [The capital of the Sogdoi has been identified with Alor or Aror; but Cunningham places it between Alor and Uchh. The capital of Mousikanos was possibly Alor, and Sehwān the Sindimana of the Greeks. But, owing to changes in the course of the Lower Indus, it is very difficult to identify ancient sites (McCrindle, Alexander, 157, 354 f.).]