[340] Boukephala and Nikaia, for which see Note on Arrian, [p. 110].
[341] See [Note Z], Indian Serpents.
[342] This is the whip-snake which is thus described in British India of the Edinburgh Cabinet Library, vol. iii. pp. 121, 122: “The whip snake is common to the Concan, where it conceals itself among the foliage of trees, and darts at the cattle grazing below, generally aiming at the eye. A bull, which was thus wounded at Dazagon, tore up the ground with extreme fury, and died in half an hour, foaming at the mouth. The habit of the reptile is truly singular, for it seems to proceed neither from resentment nor from fear, nor yet from the impulse of appetite; but seems, ‘more than any other known fact in natural history, to partake of that frightful and mysterious principle of evil, which tempts our species so often to tyrannize for mere wantonness of power.’”
[343] The Adraïstai of Arrian. See Note on that author, [p. 116].
[345] More correctly Sôphytês. See [Biog. Appendix], s.v.
[346] This was also a Spartan institution.
[348] More correctly Phegelas as given by Arrian. See [Biog. Appendix], s.v.
[349] Usually called the Hyphasis. It is now the Beäs which joins the Satlej. The name of the Hyphasis was sometimes, however, applied to the united stream, but this is contrary to Sanskrit usage.