Book 15
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The southern parts of the Paropamisus belong to India and Ariana; the northern parts towards the west belong to Bactriana [towards the east to Sogdiana * *The text is corrupt; the words between brackets are supplied by Kramer’s conjecture. See b. xi. c. xi. § 2. Bactrian barbarians]. Having wintered there, with India above to the right hand, and having founded a city, he crossed the summits of the mountains into Bactriana. The road was bare of everything except a few trees of the bushy terminthus;Theophrastus, iv. 5. The Pistatia-nut tree. the army was driven from want of food to eat the flesh of the beasts or burthen, and that in a raw state for want of firewood; but silphium grew in great abundance, which promoted the digestion of this raw food. Fifteen days after founding the city and leaving winter quarters, he came to AdrapsaBamian, see b. xi. c. xi. § 2. (Darapsa?), a city of Bactriana.
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Chaarene is situated somewhere about this part of the country bordering upon India. This, of all the places subject to the Parthians, lies nearest to India. It is distant 10,000 or 9000 stadiaIn the text 19,000. Kramer’s proposed reading is adopted of separating the amount. from Bactriana,Ariana in the text. Groskurd proposes to read Carmania; Kramer, Bactriana. through the country of the Arachoti, and the above-mentioned mountainous tract. Craterus traversed this country, subjugating those who refused to submit, and hastened with the greatest expedition to form a junction with the king. Nearly about the same time both armies, consisting of infantry, entered Carmania together, and at a short interval afterwards Nearchus sailed with his fleet into the Persian Gulf, having undergone great danger and distress from wandering in his course, and among other causes, from great whales.
