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



that the beneficence of his character may have obHterated from the remem- 

 brance of the Hindu the barbarous deeds of Alexander. 



A more honourable testimony of regard was never paid to departed 

 royalty, than that which Menander received from his subjects. Bayer, 

 quoting Plutarch, thus describes it : " A certain king, Menander, who 

 had reigned with justice over the Bactrians, having died in camp, the cities 

 in common had the care of his funeral rites, but afterwards contended for 

 his ashes ; they at last divided his remains equally amongst them, and 

 agreed that monuments* to him should be raised amongst them all." 



I possess two notices from the native Hindu annals of a city of antiquity, 

 which I have little doubt is the Sagala of the Greeks. 



I have already hinted, that in the destruction of the Yadava power, which 

 predominated in all India about 1,100 years before the Christian era, one 

 branch retired to Zabulest'han, claiming Guzni as their ancient capital. 

 Doubts might be raised on this point; but the same annals (those of Jessel- 

 mer) give us an intermediate place of halt, in their migration from the 

 plains of the Yamuna and Saurdshtra. 



This intermediate place was Behera, on the Behat, or Hydaspes, in the 

 hilly tract styled by them Jidda, or " Yadu ca dang," tiie Jiddu, or Yadu hills, 

 a name they still ])reserve, and whicli is to be found in Kennel's Geography. 

 The MSS. from which I had this, are of some antiquity ; but of the real 

 situation of the hills of //(/</m, no information is any where to be obtained. 

 These people were again driven back on India, and have retained a great 

 impression of their foes in a Grecian garb. Siibhava, or Subhdg, esta- 

 blished himself in the Parapamisan range, from those of Yadu, east of Indus; 

 his son was Gaj, who founded Gajni. The king, Mamrej, of Khorasan 

 ( Bactria), often attacked tlie Yadu princes of Gajni. Subhava had always 



* On first reading this passage, it struck me that the singular monument described by 

 Mr. Elphinstone as the " Tope (Barrow) of Maunikyeula," might be one of these trophies to 

 merit. 



It is, however, mucli nearer to Taxila than Sangala, and which, doubtless, was within Menan- 

 der s control. " There was nothing at all Hindu in the appearance of this building; most of the 

 party thought it entirely Grecian." — See Elphinstone' s Cabut, page 130, vol. i., and plate in vol.ii., 

 iecond edition. 



