The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 2Mommsen, Theodor
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The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 2
Mommsen, Theodor
Roman provinces -- Administration; Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
[14] Thus there stands on the coins of Gotarzes (under Claudius)
Γωτέρζης βασιλεὺς βασιλέων ὑὸς κεκαλουμένος Ἀρταβάνου. On the later
ones the Greek legend is often quite unintelligible.
[15] While the kingdom of Darius, according to his inscriptions,
includes in it the Gādara (the Gandhâra of the Indians, Γανδαρῖτις
of the Greeks on the Cabul river) and the Hîdu (the dwellers by the
Indus), the former are in one of the inscriptions of Asoka adduced
among his subjects, and a copy of his great edict has been found in
Kapurdi Giri, or rather in Shahbaz Garhi (Yusufzai-district), nearly
27 miles north-west of the point where the Cabul river falls into
the Indus at Attock. The seat of the government of these north-west
provinces of Asoka’s kingdom was (according to the inscription _C.
I. Indicar._ i. p. 91) Takkhasilâ, Τάξιλα of the Greeks, some 40
miles E.S.E. of Attock, the seat of government for the south-western
provinces was Ujjênî (Ὀζήνη). The eastern part of the Cabul valley thus
belonged at any rate to Asoka’s empire. It is not quite impossible
that the Khyber pass formed the boundary; but probably the whole Cabul
valley belonged to India, and the boundary to the south of Cabul was
formed by the sharp line of the Suleiman range, and farther to the
south-west by the Bolan pass. Of the later Indo-Scythian king Huvishka
(Ooerke of the coins), who seems to have resided on the Yamunâ in
Mathurâ, an inscription has been found at Wardak not far northward from
Cabul (according to information from Oldenberg).
[16] The Egyptian merchant named in note 3 makes mention, c. 47, of
“the warlike people of the Bactrians, who have their own king.” At
that time, therefore, Bactria was separated from the Indus-empire that
was under Parthian princes. Strabo, too (xi. 11, 1, p. 516) treats the
Bactro-Indian empire as belonging to the past.
[17] Probably he is the Kaspar--in older tradition Gathaspar--who
appears among the holy three kings from the East (Gutschmid, _Rhein.
Mus._ xix. 162).
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