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



latter I shall only mention, that the native annals state that Samba,* one of 

 Crishna's sons by his favourite wife Jambuvati, was the founder of the 

 Sinde-sama dynasty, on the Indu?, and that their capital was anciently 

 called Samanagara, or Sambunagara, the fortress of Santa, or Sambu, well 

 known in the Jdreja annals, at this day. On its site now stands Tatta, 

 also called Debeil, properly Deu'al, or t/ie J'emple ; for there is a cele- 

 brated temple, the situation of which corresponds with tlie abode of the 

 Brahmins, whom Alexander massacred for instigating the princes to oppose 

 him. 



This Minagara is the Parthian capital of the author of the Periplus, and the 

 Sindomana of Arrian ; and its sovereign was Sambu (a titular appellation), 

 the Sambus of Alexander. When the Jdrejas sacrificed tlie Hindu cha- 

 racter to maintain their dominion, and became proselytes to Islam, it 

 required but the change of a letter to make these the descendants of the 

 mildest of the gods of Hind, the offspring of the Persian Jamshced ; and 

 Sain and the exploits of Crishna, the Apollo of Vr'ij, were lost in Jam. 

 Abul Fazil describes the Jam raj (government), which ruled on the Indus, 

 one branch of which is now fixed in the Saurdshtra peninsula; their capital, 

 .Tamnagar. They are neitlicr Hindu, nor Mahomedan ; while their Jareja 

 brethren follow the Hindu manners, but are too much degenerated from 

 purity of blood, to admit of its mixing with that of the princes of Rd- 

 jast'hdn. 



Had not the afore-mentioned passage of Strabo pointed out the Hyphasis 

 as the first object, when speaking of the conquest of Menander, we might 

 have imagined that, passing over the intermediate country, which forms the 

 eastern portion of the valley of the Indus, he had proceeded directly from 

 Bactria, through Aria and Arachosia, to the Patalene ; but we have evidence 

 of the route of march having extended from the eastern frontier of the 

 land watered by the five grand streams which feed the Indus ; and we 

 are also in possession of tlie important fact, that there existed a capital 

 of a Greek kingdom on the Hyphasis, called, in the native tongue, 

 Sangala, which was the residence of Demetrius, and the Greek dynasty 



* Sama, or Syama, was one of the names of Crishna, from his dark complexion, hence Samba ; 

 a;id one branch of their family having lost sight of their origin, say they came from Rum Sham, 

 or Syria. The Batti and Jareja annals fortunately aid each other to develope the little that is to 

 be gleaned of that remote period. 



