[36] Ct. d’Herbelot, Bib. Orient. vol. vi. p. 10; and Boulger, Hist. of China, p. 11.
[37] Cf. Rapson, Indian Coins, in Grundriss der Indo-Arischen Philologie, p. 7.
[38] Cf. Ujfalvy, Les Aryens au nord et au sud de l’Hindou-Kouch, p. 64.
[39] A distinctly Greek type survives to the present time in the mercantile and settled agricultural population of Bokhārā, and the neighbouring khanates, who are known as Tājiks.
[40] Strabo (xi. 8) tells us that the Greek power in Bactria was overthrown by the Asii, Pasiani, Tokhari, and Sakarauli. The first two names are probably identical, and represent the royal family of the Tokhari. They may be identified with the Asiani of Trogus Pompeius. The Sakarauli are the Sarancæ of Trogus, and correspond with the Chinese Sé or Su, i.e. the Sakas. Cf. Cunningham, Survey of India, vol. ii. p. 65.
[41] Cf. Journal Asiatique, Série Nouvelle, vii. p. 162, 1896.
[42] Cf. Colonel Yule, Introduction to Wood’s Oxus, p. xxv.
[43] Identified with Kandahār.
[44] Cf. Drouin’s excellent article on “Bactria” in the Grande Encyclopédie.
[45] General Cunningham states, without quoting any authority, that the Yué-Chi waged war with the Chinese in Khotan during this year (Survey of India, ii. 63).