[96] There is a very close parallel in the modern Panjáb, where (see Census Report of 1881) the national name Baluch has become a tribal name in the same way as Bálhika. [↑]
[97] Hodgson’s Essays on Indian Subjects, I. 405 Note. [↑]
[98] McCrindle’s Periplus, 121. Compare Rawlinson’s Seventh Monarchy, 79. The absence of Indian reference to the Yuechi supports the view that in India the Yuechi were known by some other name. [↑]
[99] According to Reinaud (Mémoire Sur l’Inde, 82 note 3) probably the modern Kochanya or Kashania sixty or seventy miles west of Samarkand. This is Hiuen Tsiang’s (a.d. 620) Ki’uh-shwangi-ni-kia or Kushánika. See Beal’s Buddhist Records, I. 34. [↑]
[100] Etude sur la Geographie Grecque et Latine de l’Inde, 147. [↑]
[101] McCrindle’s Alexander in India, 350. [↑]
[102] The suggestion is made by Mr. A. M. T. Jackson. [↑]
[103] McCrindle’s Alexander, 136. [↑]
[104] McCrindle’s Alexander, 252. [↑]
[105] Compare Strabo, XV. I. 8. The Oxydrakai are the descendants of Dionysus. Again, XV. I. 24: The Malloi and the Oxydrakai who as we have already said are fabled to be related to Dionysus. [↑]