584 Lieulenant Burnes’ Memoir on the 
outlets, as the bay visited by ALexanver the Great, and from which he is said by some 
to have passed into Cutch. 
Judging from Auexanper’s love of glory, it may almost be believed that he had no 
desire to be acquainted with Cutch, since his ambition could not be gratified by entering 
where he knew his army would not follow ; and it is more than probable, therefore, that 
the Indus and the ocean were the boundaries of the Great ALEXANDER’s conquests, and, 
as he wished his soldiers to believe, the boundaries of nature ; for since he could prosecute 
his expedition no farther, it was but in unison with the colossal altars and camp he had 
caused to be erected on the banks of the Hyphasis, as monuments of his glory, and the 
extent of his journey, that he should impress upon his followers, when about to return 
home, that they had reached the extremities of the earth, and were masters of the uni- 
verse ; and that their leader had rivalled the feats of Hercutes and Baccuus. 
(B.) This conflict, so memorable in the annals of Cutch, was fought in the reign 
of R&do Gorx, at a small village of the name of Jhdrrd, which is situated about 
fifteen miles from Lacpat. I have heard various accounts of it from eye-witnesses, 
all of whom describe it as a dreadful scene of carnage. The Cutch people took their 
stand upon a rocky hill, and butchered their own families to prevent their falling into the 
hands of the Sindians. The victory was decisive on neither side: the whole Jhdrejé 
chiefs of Cutch, and many mercenary troops, were collected together by the RAo ; the 
Sindians drove them from their position, but gained no decided advantage, and 
returned almost immediately to Sinde to throw up the bands. The revenue derived by 
government from the irrigated tract of land they thus destroyed was upwards of eight 
lacs of cdéries, or two lacs of répés annually. GuHoLAm SuHAn’s objects in invading 
Cutch seem to have been to annex it to his dominions, and also to procure the sister of 
the RAo in marriage, in neither of which was he successful. In his designs he was assisted 
by a disgraced minister, Pinga Set’u, a Lohdnd, who was afterwards poisoned for his 
treachery, 
(C.) Brackstone describes this law ‘‘ as a system of rules deducible by natural reason, 
and established by universal consent among the civilized inhabitants of the world,’’ and 
says that ‘* it is founded upon this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace 
to do one another all the good they can; and in time of war as little harm as possible, 
without prejudice to their own real interests.”—Brack. Com., book iv. p. 66. 
(D.) There is a temple at Cotdsir, built close on the water’s edge, and is a place of 
some celebrity, at which a ‘* chdp,’’* or stamp, is burned on the arms of such pilgrims as 
* A pair of these stamps are in the Museum of the Royal Asiatic Society, to which they were 
presented by Lieut.-Colonel James Top. 
