Historical Geography of Ancient India c9.196

c9.196

Praesti territory.—The people of the territory of Oxykanos were known as Praesti corresponding to the Proṣṭhas mentioned in the *Mahābhārata* (VI. 9, 61). According to Cunningham the territory of Oxykanos lay to the west of the Indus in the level country around Lārkhāna (*Invasion of Alexander*, p. 158). Oxykanos tried to oppose Alexander but in vain (*C.H.I.*, I, 377).