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derive their origin from this female, rule over three hundred 
towns, and have an army of one hundred and fifty thousand 
foot, and five hundred elephants. After passing through this 
list of three hundred cities, we come to the Darangae,'^^ tho 
Posingae, the Butae, the Gogaraei, the Umbrae, the ^^Tereae, the 
Brancosi, the Nobundae, the Cocondae, the Nesei, the Palatitae, 
the Salobriasae, and the Olostrae, who reach up to the island 
of Patala, from the extremity of whose shores to the Caspian 
Gates it is a distance of nineteen hundred and twenty-five 
miles. 
After passing this island, the other side of the Indus is oc- 
cupied, as we know by clear and undoubted proofs, by tho 
Athoae, the Bolingae, the Gallitalutae, the Dimuri, the Megari, 
the Ardabae, the Mesae, and after them, the Uri and the Silae ; 
beyond which last there are desert tracts, extending a distance 
of two hundred and fifty miles. After passing these nations, 
we come to the Organagae, the Abortae, the Bassuertae, and, 
after these last, deserts similar to those previously mentioned. 
"We then come to the peoples of the Sorofages, the Arbae, 
the Marogomatrae, the TJmbrittae, of whom there are twelve na- 
tions, each with two cities, and the Asini, a people who dwell 
in three cities, their capital being Bucephala,^' which was 
founded around the tomb of the horse belonging to king Alex- 
ander, which bore that name. Above these peoples there are 
some mountain tribes, which lie at the foot of Caucasus, the 
Soseadae and the Sondrae, and, after passing the Indus and 
going down its stream, the Samarabriae, the Sambraceni, the 
Bisambritae, the Orsi, the Anixeni, and the Taxilae, with a 
famous city,'^ which lies on a low but level plain, the general 
name of the district being Amenda : there are four nations 
'6 None of these appear to have been identified ; indeed, it appears to 
be next to impossible, owing to the corrupt state in which they have come 
down to us. 
'"^ Built on the Hydaspes by Alexander after his victory over Poms, b.o. 
326, at the spot where he had crossed the river before the battle, and in 
memory of his celebrated charger Bucephalus, who had expired during the 
battle from fatigue and old age, or from wounds. The exact site of this 
place is not known, but the probabilities appear in favour of Jhelum, at 
which place is the usual passage of the river, or else of Jellapoor, about 
sixteen miles lower down. 
Probably the same that is mentioned in c. 21 of the present Book. 
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