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supreme Maha-Raja, whose residence was either at Canouge or 

 Palibothra, (Patna,) on the Ganges. Ferishta's Indian History, in- 

 deed, of this period, records Poor, or Foor, to be of the imperial 

 dynasty of Delhi, in consonance with our former supposition that 

 Hindostan was anciently divided into two great empires, situated on 

 or near the two great rivers that wash their country, the Indus and 

 the Ganges ; but, from the entire silence of the Greeks on the subject 

 of so celebrated a capital, affirmed, too, to have been built by the 

 father of this very Foor, and the occurrence of no name in the least 

 resembling Delhi or any of its ancient synonyms, the statement of 

 the Persian historian is probably unfounded. The reigning mo- 

 narch on the Ganges, we are now certain, was CHANDRAGUPTA, 

 the Sandra-Coitus, or Cotta, of the Greeks, to whom Megasthenes 

 was afterwards sent ambassador by Seleucus, and who, as we have 

 seen above, had daringly usurped the throne after the murder of 

 the pious Rajah Nanda. It is unfortunate that more ample ma- 

 terials have not hitherto arrived from India for composing the do- 

 mestic history of this period, in defect of which we are compelled 

 to return to the farther consideration of what has descended to us 

 from classical writers concerning this invasion of the Panjab by 

 Alexander. 



According to them, the proper dominion of Porus extended no 

 farther than the district confined by the Hydaspes on the western, 

 and by the Acesines on the eastern, quarter. Strabo represents it as 

 extensive, opulent, and containing nearly three hundred cities*; 

 but many of these reported cities were probably mere villages, since 

 the whole extent of the tract, thus described, does not exceed, 

 according to modern admeasurement, forty miles in width and a 

 hundred and fifty in length. The Hydaspes, or Chelum, is stated to 



* Strabo, lib. xv. p. 603. 



