The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s6.45

c5.s6.45

Hupian—The capital of Parsusthâna, the country of the Parsus, a warlike tribe mentioned by Pâṇini. Hupian is the present Opian, a little to the north of Charikar at the entrance of a path over the north-east of the Paghman or Pamghan range (*Cunningham's Anc. Geog.*, p. 20). It was the site of Alexandria, a town founded by Alexander the Great, the Alasanda of the Mahāvamsa and the birth-place of Menander (the Milinda of the Buddhist writers), the celebrated Bactrian king (McCrindle's *Invasion of India*, p. 332). Opian is perhaps a corruption of Upanivesa or properly Kshatriya-Upanivesa, a country situated on the north of India (*Matsya P.*, 113).