The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great as described by Arrian, Q. Curtius, Diodoros, Plutarch and Justin: Being Translations of such portions of the Works of these and other Classical Authors as describe Alexander's Campaigns in Afghanistan, the Panjâb, Sindh, Gedrosia and Karmania

by John Watson McCrindle

[360] The Oxydrakai.

[361] “The two races (Oxydrakai and Malloi) were composed of widely different elements, for the name of one appears to have been derived from that of the Sudra caste; and it is certain that the Brahmins were predominant in the other. We can easily understand why they did not intermarry, and were seldom at peace with each other, and that their mutual hostility was only suspended by the common danger which now threatened their independence.”—Thirlwall’s Hist. of Greece, vii. c. 54.

[362] Called Horratas by Curtius.

[363] For a notice of Dioxippos, see Note on Curtius, [p. 249].

[364] For their identification, see Note on Curtius, [p. 252].

[365] See [Note R] for their identification.

[366] Cunningham inclines to believe that the Massanoi of Diodôros are the Musarnoi of Ptolemy, whose name, he says, still exists in the district of Muzarka to the west of the Indus below Mithankot. See his Anc. Geog. of Ind. p. 254.

[367] For its identification see [Note R] and Note on Arrian, [p. 156].

[368] See Note on Arrian, [p. 157], regarding the position of this country.

[369] Porticanos is called Oxykanos by Arrian. See Note on that author, [p. 158].