Chap. 23.] ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, ETC. 49 



derive their origin from this female, rule over three hundred 

 towns, and have an army of one hundred and fifty thousand 

 foot, and five hundred elephants. After passing through this 

 list of three hundred cities, we come to the Darangae, 76 the 

 Posingae, the Butae, the Gogaraei, the Umbrae, the Nerese, the 

 Brancosi, the Nobundae, the Cocondae, the Nesei, the Palatitae, 

 the Salobriasae, and the Olostrse, who reach up to the island 

 of Patala, from the extremity of whose shores to the Caspian 

 Gates it is a distance of nineteen hundred and twenty-five 

 miles. 



After passing this island, the other side of the Indus is oc- 

 cupied, as we know by clear and undoubted proofs, by tho 

 Athose, the Bolingse, the Gallitalutae, the Dimuri, the Megari, 

 the Ardabse, the Mesae, and after them, the Uri and the Silae ; 

 beyond which last there are desert tracts, extending a distance 

 of two hundred and fifty miles. After passing these nations, 

 we come to the Organagae, the Abortae, the Bassuertae, and, 

 after these last, deserts similar to those previously mentioned. 

 We then come to the peoples of the Sorofages, the Arbae, 

 the Marogomatrae, the Umbrittae, of whom there are twelve na- 

 tions, each with two cities, and the Asini, a people who dwell 

 in three cities, their capital being Bucephala, 77 which was 

 founded around the tomb of the horse belonging to king Alex- 

 ander, which bore that name. Above these peoples there are 

 some mountain tribes, which lie at the foot of Caucasus, the 

 Soseadae and the Sondrse, and, after passing the Indus and 

 going down its stream, the Samarabriae, the Sambraceni, the 

 Bisambritae, the Orsi, the Anixeni, and the Taxilse, with a 

 famous city, 78 which lies on a low but level plain, the general 

 name of the district being Amenda : there are four nations 



76 None of these appear to have been identified ; indeed, it appears to 

 be next to impossible, owing to the corrupt state in which they have come 

 do\vn to us. 



77 Built on the Hydaspes hy Alexander after his victory over Porus, B.C. 

 326, at the spot where he had crossed the river before the battle, and in 

 memory of his celebrated charger Bucephalus, who had expired during the 

 battle from fatigue and old age, or from wounds. The exact site of this 

 place is not known, but the probabilities appear in favour of Jhelum, at 

 which place is the usual passage of the river, or else of Jellapoor, about 

 sixteen miles lower down. 



78 Probably the same that is mentioned in c. 21 of the present Book. 

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