Political History Of Ancient India

SR No.: 032292
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hemchandra Raychaudhari
Publisher: University of Calcutta
Publication Year: 1950
Total Pages: 714
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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KINGDOMS IN THE LOWER IN DUS VALLEY 259
26. The principality of Oxykanos :
Curtius calls the subjects of Oxykanos the Praesti (Proshthas ?). 1 Oxykanos himself is styled both by Strabo and Diodoros Portikanos. Cunningham places his territory to the west of the Indus in the level country around Larkhāna.?
27. The principality of Sambos :3
Sambos was the ruler of a mountainous country adjoining the kingdom of Mousikanos, with whom he was at feud. His capital, called Sindimana, has been identified, with little plausibility, with Sehwan, a city on the Indus. According to Diodoros 'a city of the Brāhmaṇas' (Brāhmaṇavāța ?) had to be stormed whilst the operations against Sambos were going on.5
28. Patalene :
It was the Indus delta, and took its name from the capital city, Patala, probably near the site of Bahmaṇābād.
Diodoros tells us that Tauala (Patala) had a political constitution drawn on the same lines as the Spartan ; for in this community the command in war was vested in two hereditary kings of different houses, while a Council of Elders ruled the whole state with paramount authority. One of the kings in the time of Alexander was called Moeres.
The states described above had little tendency to unity or combination. Curtius tells us that Āmbhi, ruler of
1 Mbh., VI. 9. 61. 2 Invasion of Alexander, p. 158, AGI, Revised ed. 300.
3 Sambhu, according to Bevan (Camb. Hist. Ind., 377). Šāmba is a possible alternative.
4 McCrindle, Invasion of Alexander, p. 404 ; AGI, Revised ed., 302 f. 5 Diod. XVII. 103. 1 ; cf. Alberuni (I. 316; II. 262). 6 Inv. Alex., p. 296. 7 Inv, Alex. p. 256. cf. Maurya. 8 Inv. Alex., p. 202.