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derive their origin from this female, rule over three hundred 

 towns, and have an army of one hundred and fifty thousand 

 foot, and five hundred elephants. After passing through this 

 list of three hundred cities, we come to the Darangae,''^ tho 

 Posingse, the Butse, the Gogarsei, the Umbrae, the IS'erese, the 

 Erancosi, the Nobundse, the Cocondae, the Nesei, the Palatitse, 

 the Salobriasse, and the Olostrae, who reach up to tlie island 

 of Patala, from the extremity of whose shores to the Caspian 

 Gates it is a distance of nineteen hundred and twenty-five 

 miles. 



After passing this island, the other side of the Indus is oc- 

 cupied, as we know by clear and undoubted proofs, by tho 

 Athoae, the Bolingse, the Gallitalutse, the Dimuri, the Megari, 

 the Ardabse, the Mesae, and after them, the Uri and the Silae ; 

 beyond which last there are desert tracts, extending a distance 

 of two hundred and fiftj^ miles. After passing these nations, 

 we come to the Organagse, the Abortse, the Bassuertae, and, 

 after these last, deserts similar to those })reviousl3^ mentioned. 

 We then come to the peoples of the Sorofages, the Arbae, 

 the Marogomatrae, the TJmbritlae, of whom there are twelve na- 

 tions, each with two cities, and the Asini, a people who dwell 

 in three cities, their capital being Bucephala,''' which was 

 founded around the tomb of the horse belonging to king Alex- 

 ander, which bore that name. Above these peoples there are 

 some mountain tribes, which lie at the foot of Caucasus, the 

 Soseadae and the Sondrae, and, after passing the Indus and 

 going down its stream, the Samarabrise, the Sambraceni, the 

 Bisambritae, the Orsi, the Anixeni, and the Taxilae, with a 

 famous city,"^ Avhicli lies on a low but level plain, the general 

 name of the district being Amenda : there are four nations 



"^ None of these appear to liaA'e been iclentifled ; indeed, it appears to 

 be next to impossible, owing to the corrupt st;ite in wbicli they luive comt> 

 dovv'n to us. 



" Built on the Hydaspes by Alexander after bis victory over Porus, b.o. 

 326, at the spot wbero he had crossed the river before the battle, and in 

 memory of his celebrated charger Bucephalus, who hftd expired during the 

 battle 'from fatigue and old age, or from wounds. The exact site of (his 

 place is not known, but the probabilities appear in favour of Jbelum, at 

 which place is the usual passage of the river, or else of Jellapoor, about 

 sixteen miles lower down, 



'^ Probably the same that is mentioned in c. 21 of the present Book. 



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