Major Tod's Account of Greek, Parthian, and Hindu Medals. 329 



in India proper, and by Demetrius named Euthydemia,* in honour of his 

 father. 



If Apollodotus does not belong to the Bactrian dynasty, we must give 

 Sagala, or Sangala, to him, in preference to Demetrius, and even Menander. 

 Perhaps the monograms may tend to clear up these doubts. 



Sangala is placed on St. Croix's mapt within the Hyphasis, which coin- 

 cides with D'Anvillet and the historians of Alexander, and brings it on 

 one side of Lahore, the supposed site of the capital of Porus. At this point 

 the progress of Alexander terminated, and here he erected what is called 

 his Altars. Major Ilennel has not fixed the position oi Sangala in his map, 

 though he intimates where it should be placed, § which does not differ from 

 St. Croix. 



Wilford, quoting most respectable native authority, || says, that there are 

 the ruins of a most extensive city, which he supposes to be Satigala, to the 

 westward of Lahore.^ This was the last city which the Macedonian con- 

 queror sacrificed to his ambition, in his career towards the plain of Hin- 

 dust'han. Good fortune saved the cities on the Yamuna and Ganges from 

 sharing the doom of Sangala, which was itself levelled to the ground, after 

 a massacre of 17,000 of its people, and the captivity of 70,000. 



After Alexander's departure, it seems to have sprung up again from its 

 ruins, but only to become the possession of another Greek. But if we 

 suppose Menander to have been this Grecian, which can hardly be doubted, 

 though he also was master of Bactria, it is gratifying to humanity to think. 



* " I find from Claudius Ptolemy, that there was a city within the Hydaspes, called Sagala, also 

 Euthydemia, and I scarcely doubt that Demetrius called it so from his father, though after his 

 death, and that of Menander. When Menander subdued Bactria, I cannot define; but we may 

 conjecture that Demetrius was deprived of his patrimony, A.U.C. 562 (A.C. 192)." — Bayer, 

 page Si. 



f Carte des Marches d' Alexandre. 



X Page 105. This great geographer, quoting from Ptolemy, says, " Sagala is called jEuMy- 

 media, but that he would fain read Euthydemia." 



§ 48 miles S.W. of Lahore. 



II Mirza Mogul Beg, part of whose journals and remarks this very intelligent Mogul presented 

 to me many years ago. 



^ Ae. Res. 



