Major Ton's Account of Greek, Parlhian, and Hindu Medals. 325 



Gor-ind ;* for eleven, the Maunas ;i- in Balich Des, thirteen generations ; 

 Pushpamitra Dumifra, after the descendants of Agraj, seven generations." I 

 give the passage as a guide to others ; whether Dumitra is Demetrius, the 

 son of Euthydemus, we have nothing but the analogy of the names, and 

 the introduction of Balich in the same passage, for support to our conjecture. 

 Agraj, the Hindu prince, after whom, it appears, this dynasty of seven 

 princes reigned, may be the Aggrames of Quintus Curtius, the Prince of the 

 Gangarides and Prasii, the report of whose immense armies was the barrier 

 to the further advance, beyond the Setlej, of the arms of Alexander. With 

 every probability, we may consider the ancient city of Agra as the residence 

 of Aggrames ;% and, as a proof of its great antiquity, and at the same time as 

 throwing some new light on another interesting series of medals of a 

 Parthian dynasty, to which we are strangers, I present drawings of a few 

 of those medals, out of a considerable number, which were discovered in an 

 earthen vessel, found in its ruins some years ago, in the course of my 

 researches. 



There are remains of another Agra, or Aggaroa, fifteen miles to the north- 

 east of Hansi Hissar, of which tradition says, that it occupies the site of an 

 old capital. It would have been precisely in the line of march of Alexander 

 into India. This 'Aggaroa is in the tract termed Heriana, the cradle of 

 the Agarwdl race ; who, though now only traders, claim a princely origin. 

 Quintus Curtius mentions Aggrames not being of gentle blood ; nor is it 

 improbable that this prince, whose sons were merchants, was the formidable 

 opponent, of whose power such exaggerated accounts readied Alexander's 

 army, as to cause them to murmur against the king's further progress into 

 the plains of Hindust'han. 



There is very good ground for believing that Apollodotos, or Menander, 

 or both, penetrated beyond the altars of Alexander on the banks of the 

 Setlej, the Hyphasis of his historians ; and here I must again refer to the 

 quotation, already given from Strabo.^ 



Among the princes, who had carried their arms into the interior of India, 



* Gor-ind, the lords of Gor. Ind, a contraction of Indra, in poetical composition, very com- 

 monly applied to a prince. 



f Maunas, perhaps the Macwana tribe, still found in the Saurashtra peninsula. 

 X Agra-grfima (town), isu (lord). 

 J See page 23, Strabo, lib. xi. 



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