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patron as he was of Soe the Buddha could not find it in 
his heart Si spring the act. The Greek historians give the son 
so suce the aes name of Heliokles ; his real name was 
ost probably some form of Gabalisc, the Herakles of these Getic 
e Demetrius his name disappears from history, only, 
however, to reappear in another form, and in another locality, 
but still a reigning dynast. 
24. Notwithstanding the death of his father the affairs of the 
Baktrian kingdom show little amelioration, Mithridates of Parthia 
attacked it, and of the districts big weno from it formed two new 
provinces, Turiwa and Aspidnus,' while the northern frontagers 
also showed signs of longing for the fertile districts of Baktria 
itself. At first Eukratidas had been successful in the war 
conquests in the Panjab: we find Strabo, quoting from the 
Parthian history of Apollodorus, asserting, indeed, that Eukrati- 
das had a thousand cities subject to his authority, but this very 
extension of his rule to the south of the Paropanisus was a 
source of weakness at home, and must have contributed to his 
eventual fall. 
25. The T’ sien Han Shu® gives us some interesting bel 
culars of the distribution of the Getic tribes immediately afte 
their immigration into these regions.—After their seni at the 
hands of the Shenyii Maotun, they had passed by Tayuen 
(Yarkand), and going west had encountered the Tahia (Tokhars), 
whom they had subjected. Here the new arrivals more or less 
amalgamated ; at all events, they are described as ae under 
five Ling-heo, a term which we may render. by Margr: These 
Margravates were:—(1) Hiumi, big oon we may “dentify with 
Harm or Gharm on the Surkhab ; (2) Shwangmet, Samar-kand ?; 
(3) Kweishwang or Kweisiang, ‘Kesh-wara, t.e., Kushan; (4) 
Ya(t)t’un, Vasdhatd , Ferghana ?; (5) Kaofu, Kabul,—in the Heo 
Han Shu the last is more correctly named T'umi(t), i.e., D. 
They were distinctly territorial divisions rather than tribal ; 
but ieiiiagh the people all belonged to the same stock there was 
evidently much internecine jealousy. The most powerful of the 
states, that of the Yuehti, could, according to the 7’ sien Han 
Shu, turn out at least 100,000 bowmen, so that they were by no 
means insignificant antagonists that had ve be faced by the suc- 
nominally formed these districts into his Province of Turiwa, 
1 (Strabo XI, 11. 2). There is rarppecmasr ge! oman Ae in identifying 
se provinces; on merely tng should 
mnect Turiwa with the Chinese Tayuen, ?.e. Wgeekends or , acted 
the ff Spahr gece of Tuirwa’”’ : Aspionus, ppayona, would proba ably 
be = rich rve; the names never 
me perinancntly attached to the icicle. and in a few years ceased 
s ge XCVI, pt. 1 (Si Yih). 
