224 On the Sites of Nikaia and Boukephalon. [No. 3. 



"About fifteen miles below Jelum, and about 1000 yards from the 

 Hydaspes, near the modern village of Darapoor, we hit upon some 

 extensive ruins called Oodeenuggur, which seem to have been a city 

 that extended three or four miles. The traditions of the people are 

 vague and unsatisfactory, for they referred us to the deluge and the time 

 of the prophet Noah. Many copper coins are found, but those which 

 were brought me bore Arabic inscriptions, &c. Genl. Court found 

 a fluted pillar near this site, with a capital very like the Corinthian 

 order. It however had a Hindu figure upon it. At present there are 

 no buildings standing, but the ground is strewn with broken pieces of 

 kiln-burnt bricks and pottery, the latter of a superior description. On 

 the opposite side of the Hydaspes to Darapoor stands a mound said 

 to be coeval with Oodeenuggur, where the village of Moongh is built, 

 at which I procured two Sanskrit coins. There are also some exten- 

 sive ruins beyond Moongh near Huria Badshapoor. I do not conceive 

 it improbable that Oodeenuggur may represent the cite of Nicsea, and 

 that the mounds and ruins on the Western bank mark the position 

 of Bucephalia. ,, 



So far Burnes. I did not hear of the ruin of Oodeenuggur when in 

 the neighbourhood, or should have visited it. Burnes rates it at fifteen 

 miles below Jelum. But Darapoor is nineteen and half miles, as the 

 crow flies, or, by the road, about twenty-four miles. If therefore it be 

 Nikaia or Boukephala, Alexander's camp must have been at Julalpoor, 

 which Burnes had just before proved to be improbable. Alexander's 

 flank movement according to Arrian was a hundred and fifty stadia 

 or about eleven miles. 



Again, the foregoing extract would lead any one to suppose Moongh 

 opposite to Darapoor or Oodeenuggur. But Moongh is in fact seven 

 miles below Darapoor. And the only argument Burnes could himself 

 observe for the Grecian origin of either was, that Oodeenuggur yielded 

 Arabic coins and inscriptions, and Moongh two Sanskrit coins. Genl. 

 Court, however, found a fluted pillar with a Hindu figure in relief near 

 Oodeenuggur. And therefore it is probable that it was inhabited 

 previous to the extinction of the Scytho-Greek architecture which 

 seems to have lasted till the invasion of Mahmood Ghuzuavi. Oodee- 

 nuggur and Moongh, both very old Hindi names, are probably ante- 

 cedent to Alexander's invasion, and give not the slightest hint of 

 having succeeded to older Greek titles. 



