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between the Tukwei Shui (Surkhab) and the Oxus ; their country 
was bounded on the south by districts lately conquered by the 
Tokhars, and on the west by Parthian territory. Consequent set 
on their defeat at the hands of the Hiung Nu they had emigrated, ; 
and passing by Yarkand had attacked the Tokhars and defeated 7 
them. They followed the course of the Surkhab, and established < 
their royal residence on its northern bank, apparently at Gharm, “3 
which we shall meet subsequently. As the defeat of the Yuehti a 
had happened at the hands of the great Shenyti Maotun, and 4 
Maotun died in the 10th Moon of 179 B.C., these events must 
have occurred in the winter of 180-179. The date is important. 
21. Now Tokhars, Yuehti, and Wusuns, we have the author- 
ity of the Han historians for stating, spoke the same language, 
only dialectically different, and were mutually intelligible. To 
them, though not specially mentioned, we may add the (H)Ukrits, 
whom we must identify with the Sakarauli, really aka(r)- 
aegli, so that we can at once appreciate the position before the a 
amalgamation of the five petty states resulted in the formation ee 
of the Kushan kingdom. aa 
22. The king Euthydémus with whom Antiochus HI 
entered into the treaty, must, then, have been the last of the 
Greek line of the kings of Baktria, and associated with hin, 
according to the plain reading of the Greek accounts, was his son 
Demetrius, whom he subsequently placed in charge with regal 
rank of the provinces acquired from India in the Panjab. m 
the above description of the position by the contemporary Chinese 
historians we can readily comprehend the wisdom of his advice 
to Antiochus, that it would be expedient to make terms, rather 
than bring on himself the hostility of the Yuehti and their as 
sociates. Eventually it happened that the destruction of the 
Greek kingdom came from Eukratidas, hitherto cl ae 
himself one of the Greek sovereigns but more correctly to be 
described as the founder of the first of the Sakan (fakan) 
Ari 
and at the last attacked by the Parthians, began to < 
amo. 
Skythic peoples that when a man grew old and helpless he sh 
be killed by the more active survivors, and the history of See 
kingdoms is full of instances. When in the days of Gautam?, 
king Ajatasatru put his father, the old king Bimbisara, , 
