HISTORY OF CASHMTH. 103 



desert along the Indus, extending- westward to Kb man and Mukran, Maru 

 and Naraca may then imply the Sindhic provinces, and these were reduced 

 under the authority of the Bactrian monarch, if we may trust to Straho and 



his guides, who state that that sovereign not only held Pattalene, but the 

 territories of Tessariostus and Sigertis along the sea coast. 06 u.ovou rr t v 

 YlaT\oO"r l vr\v xari(T-/ov aAXa xai rr]g aZr^g ira.fuZ.iag ty\v ts Te<tr<ruf>io£ou xa.?:oip.ii/Y i v 



No. VI. 



Oh the Qandhdras or Gandarii and other Nations of the Panjah and North 



West of India. 



Sindhu Gandhar, ft=F*J"JT*£rn7, is the phrase of the original — the Gandhar 

 of the Hindu writers has been always regarded by them as the Candahar- 

 of the Mohammedans, and the text here not only corroborates the notion, 

 but by connecting the Indus with the province, shews, that at least a sub- 

 division of it extended beyond the limits now assigned to Candahar, and 

 carries it across the southern portion of Afghanistan ; the Hindu name was 

 known to the ancients, and Herodotus, enumerates the Gandarii, as a peo- 

 ple of one of the twenty satrapies of the Persian Empire under Darius 

 Hystaspis, and subsequently as serving in the army of Xerxes Xa-rrayu^ai 

 $e xai Favodoioi xai AaSjxa* ts xai'Aira.pulvi eg rcuuloilsTayusvoi s^qt^ko^c/xo.} sx 

 alov TaKavTCf. TootrsC^soqv, voy.og 6= hSlag e§oo[xag. 



Tha. 91. "The Sattagyda, Gandarii, Dadica? and Apart/ toe, were classed 

 together and contributed 170 talents, and this was the seventh prefecture." 

 Again, Udfioi Se xai Xopa<r/x<oi xai $oyMt rkxru Tavhdpioi xai Aabixai l(f\pu.riu 

 ovlo. The Parthi, Chorasmi, Sogdii, Gandarii, and JJadicce served in the army. 

 Pol. 66. The two last it appears were united under one command Tav?ia r ia)u 

 os xai Aaolxswv, Af>rv<f>iog '0 ' AapSvdou. " Artyphius, the son of Artabanns, 

 commanded the Gandarii and Dadicce." — Ibid. By the Dadicae were no 

 doubt intended the Daradas or Daradacas (^K^: o r ^i^^^n:) with whom 

 we often meet in the text, as the inhabitants of the rugged tract lying west 



