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ing arrangements for his Indian territories.
I. Sind was put in charge of Pithon, son of Agenor upto the confluence of the Punjab rivers with the Indus.
II. The territories, north of this confluence, consisting of the conquered tribes of Malavas, Kshudrakas. etc were put in charge of Philip. The kingdom of Taxilla, north of the satrapy of Philip, was under Ambhi, who had helped Alexander so much during his Indian campaign, but Ambhi's rule appears to have been under the military suzerainty of Philip. Philip had a large army of occupation under him, consisting of Greek, Macedonian and Thracian soldiers. The Thracian soldiers were under an officer called Eudamos.
III. East of this was the kingdom of Poros who had a large accession of territories to bis original kingdom between the Jhelum and the Chenab. He
had submitted to Alexander, and had acknowledged the suzerainty of the Greek Emperor.
IV. North-west of the territories ruled over by Ambhi and Philip was the satrapy of Paropanisidae under Oxyartes, Alexander's father-in-law.
In 324 B.C. Philip was murdered by some of his own troops. On receipt of the news, Alexander appointed Eudamos to succeed Philip until & more satisfactory arrangement could be made. He was to be responsible for the administration of Philip's extensive satrapy, conjointly witb Ambbi king of Taxila Ambhi had all along been a faithful partisan of the Greeks, and was much trusted.
In June 323 B.C. Alexander died at Babylon and no permanent incumbent in Philip's place could ever be appointed.
Soon after Alexander's death, his generals met in council in Babylon, and devised a sche
(x2) 241 314a muzla B B, Patissa હિંદી રાજ ઉપર સંપૂર્ણ વિશ્વાસ નહોતો ( કારણ કે તેના મનમાં એમ રહ્યાં જ કરતું હતું કે, જે માણસ પિતાની માતૃભૂમિનું હિત ન તપાસતાં, મારી સાથે અન્ય પ્રકારની રાજકીય વાતામાં જોડાયા કરે છે તે, કાં તેનું પેટ બેટું ન હોય !) જેથી તે ઉંચો નીચો થાય કે પિતાને ખબર મળી જાય, અને જરૂર દેખાય તે
પ્રમાણે તેના ઉપર ચાંપતા ઉપાય પણ લઈ શકાય. આ બેવડા હેતુથી આવી ગોઠવણ કરી હોય.
જો કે પાછળથી રાજા આર્ભિ બહુ વિશ્રવાસી બની ગયો હતો. (જુઓ આગળ) પણ તે અલેકઝાંડરના મરણબાદની સ્થિતિ છે. એટલે કાંતે, અભિ ખરેખર તે થઈ પડ પણ હોય અથવા તે તેની પરીક્ષા કરવામાં ગ્રીસના સત્તાવાળા કાંઈક ઉતાવળા થઈ ગયા હોય.
