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priately assigned to the kingdom of Mat'hurd. Arrian tnentions two capital 

 cities on the Yamuna, " Methoras and Clisobaras." We easily recognize the 

 first; yet, much as the Greeks disfigured proper names, we can hardly 

 twist the latter into Silrajmra. Amongst the ruins of ancient Mat'hurd, I 

 obtained two other medals of Apollodotus, one of which, very indistinct, 

 I gave to JVIajor Miles, who, 1 believe, has since presented it to the Literary 

 Society of Bomba)'. 



At Mat'hurd, wliere I obtained a few good medals, after many years' 

 search, I found Menander. 



The illustrious names of Apollodotus and Menander, are a sufficient 

 theme to fill many pages of the journals of the Society, and would require 

 more classical historic knowledge than the nature of my pursuits and 

 occupations could afford me a chance of acquiring, in order to illustrate 

 their history. Nevertheless, as I possess some knowledge of the geography 

 of their conquests, and have not come altogether unprepared for the task, 

 I shall trust to the indulgence of the Society, in the attempt I am about 

 to make. 



Had not Apollodotus and Menander despised the narrow limits of the 

 kingdom usurped by Theodotus, I should never have ventured west of 

 the Indus, in search of the princes of Bactria ; but as both of them con- 

 temned the Indus as the boundary of their sovereignty, and invaded the 

 sons of PuRu in Saurdshtra, on the Indian shore, and on the Yamuiid, 

 where they left these memorials of their conquests, they placed themselves 

 within the sphere of my pursuits. 



It was from a passage in Dr. Vincent's " Translation of the Periplus of 

 the Erythrean Sea," that I discovered Apollodotus appertained to the 

 Bactrian dynasty. Moreover, Sainte Croix, in his " Examen Critique des 

 Historiens d' Alexandre," takes notice* of the conquests of Menander; 

 from both I had references to other authorities, which I had no access to 

 in India. 



" Our author (Arriant)," says Dr. Vincent, "redeems his error,* by the 



* Page 726. 



t Supposed to have ivrittcn liis book during the reign of Aurelian. He resided at Barugaza, 

 or Baroocli, in a commercial capacity. 



t The error alluded to by Dr. Vincent is of a geographical nature, in Alexander's departure 

 from India. 



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