[351] Probably the Caroubba (Lotus Zizyphus), but it does not produce the effect here mentioned. [352] The Ravee. [353] Arist. Hist. An. vii. 4, who speaks however of five only. [354] πεπλησμένως. _Coraÿ._ [355] Od. ii. 157. [356] That is to say, he crossed the Paropamisus, or Mount Ghergistan, from the western frontier of Cabul, by the pass of Bamian, to enter the district of Balk. [357] The Attock. [358] The river of Cabul. [359] The Gandaræ were a widely extended people of Indian or Arianian origin, who occupied a district extending more or less from the upper part of the Punjab to the neighbourhood of Candahar, and variously called Gandaris and Gandaritis. See Prof. Wilson’s _Ariana Antiqua_. [360] Aspasii. _Coraÿ._ [361] Peucela, in Arrian iv. 22. Rennell supposes it to be Puckholi, or Pehkely. [362] Abisarus was king of the mountainous part of India, and, according to the conjecture of Vincent, which is not without some probability, his territory extended to Cashmir. [363] India is bordered to the north, from Ariana to the Eastern Sea, by the extremities of Taurus, to which the aboriginal inhabitants give the different names of Paropamisus, Emodon, Imaon, and others, while the Macedonians call them Caucasus. The Emodi mountains were the Western Himalaya. See _Smith_, art. Emodi Montes. [364] The name of the modern city Lahore, anciently Lo-pore, recalls that of Porus. It is situated on the Hyarotis or Hydraotes (Ravee), which does not contradict our author; for, as Vincent observes, the modern Lahore represents the capital of the second Porus, whom Strabo will mention immediately; and the Lahore situate between the Hydaspes (the Behut or Jelum) and the Acesines (the Chenab), the exact position of which is unknown, was that of the first Porus. Probably these two districts, in which the two cities were situated, formed a single district only, one part of which was occupied and governed by Porus the uncle, and the other by Porus the nephew. It is probable, also, that these two princes took their name from the country itself, Lahore, as the prince of Taxila was called Taxiles, and the prince of Palibothra, Palibothrus. [365] Strabo’s Bucephalia was on the Hydaspes, between Beherat and Turkpoor, not far from Rotas. _Groskurd._ The exact site is not ascertained, but the probabilities seem to be in favour of Jelum, at which place is the ordinary passage of the river, or of Jellapoor, about 16 miles lower down. _Smith._ [366] Ox-headed. [367] Cercopitheces. [368] Hence the Cathay of the Chinese and Modern Europe. [369] So also Arrian, who takes the number from Megasthenes. Pliny says that nineteen rivers unite with the Indus. [370] Probably an interpolation. [371] The island Cos. [372] B. xv. c. i. § 7. [373] The Malli occupied a part of Moultan. [374] The Sambus of Arrian. Porticanus is the Oxycanus of Arrian. Both Porticanus and Musicanus were chiefs of the cicar of Sehwan. _Vincent’s Voyage of Nearchus_, p. 133.