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



comparable a MuUan pour la grandeur, selon Ebn Haulcal dans Abulfeda ;" 

 but if this authority afforded a positive fact, it is a pity D'Anville did not 

 abide by what he found so correct ; for, following Agizzi, he says, " Cette 

 ville est situee sur le fleuve Meiiran, « trente j)arasanges de Mansora d Mtna- 

 ga7'a en remontant cejieuic. There can be no doubt that Azour is Arore ; 

 the r (j ), by a superfluous point, made a z ( j ), tliough the only Azour, in 

 Ibn Haukal's Geography,* is one in the route from JSejesthan to Ghizni. 



It would be well if the successors of D'Anville, who have treated of the 

 geography of the Indus, had followed his opinions of the merits of his 

 authorities.! The names of towns given by him from U'ch (the seven towns, 

 capital of the Oxydraca^) to Bukhar, as Bayla, Metila, &c., are still in exist- 

 ence, as this geographer has placed them. 



Captain Pottinger, in his interesting work on Sinde and Balochistan, 

 quoting the Persian work "Mujmood Waridat," mentions "U'laor" as the 

 capital of Sinde, at the invasion of the general of Walid, in the ninety-third 

 year of the Hejira. From other sources, he also mentions the overthrow of 

 the dynasty of Sahir by Nushirican, " whose ancestors had governed Sinde 

 two thousand years ;" but there are several anachronisms combined with 

 the detail, as neither Jodhpur nor Jesulmer had existence then. But it 

 afl^brds additional testimony of the kingdom of Sehris, the Sigestis of the 

 Greeks, whose capital was Arore. 



Eucratides the First, who succeeded Menander in the kingdom of Bac- 

 tria, is said to have dispossessed Demetrius of his Indian sovereignty, pro- 

 bably founded by Apollodotus. Bayer, quoting Artemidorus, says, that 

 Eucratides possessed five thousand cities beyond the Indus, and assumed, 

 like the Parthians, on his medals, the title of " Great King." This account 

 of Bayer seems to be confirmed by a series of coins in my possession, of 

 which I present specimens.l 



That author says, " the obverse has a remarkably high relief of the head 

 and helmet ; the ground of the reverse is lower. The fascice which wave 

 round the neck are sufficient proof that the forehead under the helmet is 

 bound with a diadem. 



* By Sir W. Ousely, page 210. 



f " Tout ce detail me parait precieux pour la geographie bien loin, que je crois devoir passer 

 par dessus. II fournit ce qui nexiste point ailleurs, comme on sen convaincra par I'examen des 

 autrcs cartPS." This holds good. 



X Plate XII, Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 



