1896.] C. J. Rodgcrs—B <^pnrf on the Saugla Tihha. 85 



defeat, wonld abandon the city* during the night. Tlie ev^ent showed 

 he had conjectured aright, for, about the second watch, the most of 

 them di'opped down from the wall, and came upon the outposts of the 

 cavalry. The foremost of them wei'e cut to pieces by the sentinels, 

 but those in the rear, perceiving that the lake was guarded all round, 

 withdrew into the city. Alexander now encompassed the city with a 

 double stockade, except where the lake shut it in, and around the lake 

 lie posted guards to keep still stricter watch. He resolved also to bring 

 lip the military engines against the 'place for battering down the walls. 

 Some deserters, hoAvever, came to him from the city and informed him 

 that the Indians intended that veiy night to escape from the city by 

 ■way of the lake, where the gap occurred in the stockade. So at that 

 point he stationed Ptolemy, the son of Lagoo, with three divisions of 

 the hypaspists, each 1,000 strong, all the Agriarians and a single line 

 of archers." 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



* * Such were the directions he gave, and Ptolemy in that 

 place collected as many as he could of the waggons which the enemy 

 had left behind them in their flight, and placed them athwart so that 

 the fugitives might imagine there were many obstacles to their escaping 

 by night. He ordered the stakes which had been cut, but not fixed 

 in the ground, to be formed into stockades at different points betweea 

 the lake and the wall. * * About the fourth watch, 



the barbarians, in accordance with the information Alexander had 

 received, opened the gates which fronted the lake, and rushed towards 

 it at full speed. * # * Ptolemy, with his men, 



fell upon them and killed them, one after another, as they struck out 

 from the waggons. Upon this the Indians fled back once more to the 

 city for refuge, and as many as 500 of them were slain in the retreat. 



" Meanwhile Porus also arrived, bringing with him the remainder 

 of his elephants, and a force of 5,000 Indians, and the military engines 

 which had been constructed by Alexander tvere now brought up to the wall. 

 But the Macedonians, before any part of it was battered down, took 

 the city by storm, having undermined the tvall, which was of brick 

 and planted ladders against it all round. In the capture, 17,000 of the 

 Indians were slaughtered, and more than 7,000 were captured together 

 with 300 waggons and 500 horse men. The loss in Alexander's army 

 was somewhat under 100 killed and J, 200 wounded." * * # 

 " He drew back to Sangala and razed the city to the ground.'' * * 

 * " He himself advanced with his army to the river Hyphasis to 

 conquer the Indians Avho dwelt beyond it." (N. B. — The Hyphasis was 

 the Bias, so the Sangala of Alexander must have been in the Bari 

 Doab.) 



