33Q M.ijon Tod's Account of Greek, Parthian, and Hindu Medals. 



All these testimonies seem to point to one particular city, for which a 

 successful search might yet be made. The antiquities of that interesting 

 legion are still unexplored ; but a persevering and extensive investigation 

 would not be fruitless. There arc many important objects yet left to be 

 ascertained ; but above all, a rich harvest might be expected in the countries 

 radiating from the sources of the Oxus and Jaxartes, in Bactria and 

 Sogdiana. The entcrprizing and intelligent traveller might avail himself of 

 caravans of horse merchants, in his journey. 



In the cave temples of Bamian, inscriptions might be met with ; and were 

 but the single fact established, that the colossal figures in the temple were 

 Bud'hist, it would be worth a journey : perhaps no spot in the world is 

 more curious than this region. 



But let us return to the countries subjugated by ApoUodotus and 

 Menander, after the Patalene, namely, " the kingdoms of Tessarioustus and 

 Sigestis." As to the first, there is little doubt that the kingdom of Tessa- 

 rioustus w^s the modern kingdom of Ch/c//, tlie coast of which is called by 

 the ancient geographers Caiil'hi, a name used by the. natives to this day. 

 Hence the name of the old capital, Cdt'h-c6t, which signifies built of wood: 

 it may have been Catit'h-hot, the fort of Cant' hi. Tessarioustus might be a 

 corruption of Teja-rdja, or King Teja, a common Hindu appellation, if it 

 was not Gajardshtra, the r being clianged to a T. 



The last excursion I made was to " the coast of the kingdom of I'essa- 

 rioustus, and towards the Patalene." I obtained a knowledge of several 

 facts, which it is not the place here to dwell upon, thougli I have added to 

 the number of engravings some medals* of a very ancient date, in a character 

 of which no specimen has ever yet been given. I found these characters 

 also cut on the rock of the ancient residence of the chiefs of the peninsular 

 Siirastrene, or Saurdshtra, erroneously designated Katiawar, which I shall 

 again notice. 



Bayer t has gone to the mouths of the Ganges, in search of the kingdoms 

 of Sigestis and Tessarioustus, but his conjectures have no great probability 

 in them. Strabot proves that nothing but the tract east of the Delta can 

 have constituted the kingdom of Tessarioustus. 



That of Sigestis is more difficult to discover, especially when named 



* See Plate XII. f Page 81. % See note 4, liv. xi. Strabon. 



