316 Major Tod's Account of Greek, Parthian, and Hindu Medals. 



preservation of a circumstance which fell under his own observation, whicii 

 is, that coins with the Greek inscriptions of Menander and Apollodotus, who 

 reigned in this country after Alexander, were still current in Barugaza.* 



This Apollodotus is hard to discover, even by the scrutinizing accuracy 

 of the learned Bayer ; but Menander he has introduced into the catalogue 

 of his Bactrian kings, and with a most peculiar distinction, that he had 

 extended his sovereignty down the Indus, and over the Delta of the 

 Patalene.t 



B A C T R I A. 



On the division of the provinces, by the successors of Alexander, of the 

 enormous empire he so rapidly acquired, those between the Caspian Sea 

 and the Indus formed several extensive Satrapies.t Of the various autho- 

 rities who treat of this partition, none agree with each other in the names 

 of the governors to wliom the allotments fell, for they were repeatedly 

 changed by those who were the real masters of those provinces. In that 

 portion of the empire held by Antipater, according to Arrian, Stasanor 

 had Bactria and Sogdia ; Philip had Parthia, which included H yrcania ; 

 and the tracts east of Bactriana, almost to the Indus, were held by Pithon : 

 while the Hindu princes, Taxiles, Poms, and Sandrocottus, exercised their 

 sway on each side, and within the Indus. It is immaterial to notice the 

 fluctuating alterations in this arrangement, down to the extinction of the 

 Macedonian kingdom, and tiie partition of Asia amongst the officers of 

 Alexander. 



Twenty-five years after the death of Alexander, Selencus, surnamed 

 Nicator, having made himself master of Syria, and assumed the regal title, 

 brought all the provinces, up to the Indus, under subjection, and nominated 

 governors. He even designed reconquering those held by the native 

 Hindu princes ; but troubles in the West, added to the bold attitude of 

 Sandrocottus, at the head of 000,000 men, compelled him to enter into 



* The Greeks have well preserved the ancient name of Barooch, if classically written — 

 Bhrigu-gocha, the residence of the sage Bhrigu. The site of his hermitage, tradition lias placed 

 at some distance from the present city. 



t Periplus of the Erythrean sea, vol. ii. page tOl. Vincent's Navigation of the Ancients. 



% Parthia, including Hyrcania, Aria, Bactria, Sogdia, Arachosia. 



