[292] Gerhardt, Études etc., pp. 8, 11.
[293] See Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
[294] P. M. Sykes, Ten Thousand Miles in Persia, or Eight Years in Irán, London, 1902, p. 167. Sykes was the first European to follow the course of Alexander's army across eastern Persia.
[295] Bühler, Indian Brāhma Alphabet, note, p. 27; Palaeographie, p. 2; Herodoti Halicarnassei historia, Amsterdam, 1763, Bk. IV, p. 300; Isaac Vossius, Periplus Scylacis Caryandensis, 1639. It is doubtful whether the work attributed to Scylax was written by him, but in any case the work dates back to the fourth century B.C. See Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography.
[296] Herodotus, Bk. III.
[297] Rameses II(?), the Sesoosis of Diodorus Siculus.
[298] Indian Antiquary, Vol. I, p. 229; F. B. Jevons, Manual of Greek Antiquities, London, 1895, p. 386. On the relations, political and commercial, between India and Egypt c. 72 B.C., under Ptolemy Auletes, see the Journal Asiatique, 1863, p. 297.
[299] Sikandar, as the name still remains in northern India.
[300] Harper's Classical Dict., New York, 1897, Vol. I, p. 724; F. B. Jevons, loc. cit., p. 389; J. C. Marshman, Abridgment of the History of India, chaps. i and ii.
[301] Oppert, loc. cit., p. 11. It was at or near this place that the first great Indian mathematician, Āryabhaṭa, was born in 476 A.D.