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became powerful, it brought Kābul into subjection. When it grew weak it lost Kābul........... Later, Kābul fell under the rule of Parthia." The real conquest of Kābul by the Parthians could hardly have taken place till after the time of Isidore (last quarter of the first century B.C.) because the writings of that geographer do not include the Kābul valley in the list of the eastern provinces of the Parthian Empire. By A.D. 43-44, however, Parthian rule had extended to this region as we learn from Philostraters.
1 Cf. Thomas JRAS., 1906, 194. For the results of India's contact with the Hellenic world in the domains of religion, administration, literature, science and art see Bhandarkar, "Foreign Elements in the Hindu Population" (Ind. Ant., 1911); Raychaudhuri, "Early History of the Vaishnava Sect, Ist ed." p. 106; Foucher, "The Beginnings of Buddhist Art," pp. 9, 111 f.; Coomaraswami, "History of Indian and Indonesian Art," pp. 41 f.; Sten Konow, "Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum," Vol. II, Pt. 1. xv; Hopkins, "Religion of India, pp. 544 f.; Keith, "The Sanskrit Drama," pp. 57 f. : Keith, "A History of Sanskrit Literature," pp. 352 f. ; Max Müller, "India-What can it teach Us," pp. 321 f. ; Smith, EHI, pp. 251-6: "A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon," Chap. XI ; Imp. Gaz., The Indian Empire, Vol. II, pp. 105 f., 137 f., etc.
2 Tarn, The Greeks in Bactria and India, 53 ; Schoff. The Parthian Stations of Isidore of Charax, 17.
