Historical Geography of Ancient India c6.585

c6.585

Oxykanos-territory.—Curtius speaks of the people of this territory as Praesti corresponding perhaps to the Proṣṭhas mentioned in the *Mahābhārata* (VI. 9, 61). Cunningham thinks that the territory of Oxykanos lay to the west of the Indus in the level country around Larkhāna (*Invasion of Alexander*, p. 158). Oxykanos tried to oppose Alexander but in vain (*Cambridge History of India*, I, 377; Law, *Indological Studies*, Pt. I, p. 36).