70 WESTERN H I N D O O S T A N. 



felicity, determined to quit the ftage before a change fliould 

 happen to embitter his laft days. At Athens, according to the 

 cuftom of his country, he devoted himfelf to the funeral pile, 

 and, with a fmiling countenance, faw the flam.es furround him. 

 On his tomb was infcribed — " ZAPMANOXHrAS INAOS ADO 

 BAPrOSHS KATA TA DATPIA INAflN EOH EATTON AnoeANA- 



TISA£ KEITAI. Here lies Zarmonochagas an Indian from. 

 Bargosa, who, according to the culiom of the country of the 

 Indians, put an end to his exiftence." 



Coins. NUMBERS of antient drach'tiut have been found here, infcribed 



with Greek letters, and the names of Apollodotes, and of Menan- 

 devy li'mgof Ba^n'a*f who alfo reigned in this part of India, 

 and had, among other conquefts, added PaUa/ena to his form^er 

 dominions. He was fo beloved by his fubjedts, that on his death 

 there was a violent conteft among feveral cities, which of them 

 fliould have the honor of pofieffing his body. The matter was 

 compromifed by burning it, and dividing the allies among the 

 rival parties. 



Tagara. The internal commerce of Barygaza in early times was as 



great as its naval. It carried on a vaft trade with a great city, 

 called 'Tagara, the prefent Dowlafabad, or D/'ogbir, about ten days 

 journey, or a hundred miles to the fouth fouth-eafl of the for- 

 mer t. To this city was brought, from all parts of the Deccan, 

 every object of commerce, and from thence in carts conveyed 

 ( to Bajygaza, over fteep and lofty mountains, meaning the 



eaftern or Balagaut chain. About two thoufand years ago 

 it was the metropolis of a vaft diftridl, called Arlaca, which 



* MenanJer was cotemporary with Antiochus the great. \ Arrian. Mar. Erythr. ii. 171. 



compre- 



