 | Sir Alexander Cunningham - 1871 - 732 pagine
...Jhelam, which is no less than 16 miles short of the recorded distance, while Jalalpur differs from it by less than 2 miles. But there is another objection...on the map from Ohind on the Indus, through Taxila to Jhelam, be continued onwards, it will pass through Gujarat and Sodhra to Jalandhar and Sarhind.... | |
 | 1893 - 468 pagine
...Strabo and Pliny that Alexander must have advanced by the lower road. According to Strabo (XV. i. 32), "the direction of Alexander's march, as far as the...the Hypanis, it was more towards the east." Now, if Alexander had taken the route by Jhilam he would have advanced in one continuous straight line, which... | |
 | 1896 - 482 pagine
...Strabo and Pliny that Alexander must have advanced by the lower road. According to Strabo (XV. i. 32), "the direction of Alexander's march, as far as the...the Hypanis, it was more towards the east" Now, if Alexander had taken the route by Jhilam he would have advanced in one continuous straight line, which... | |
 | Vincent Arthur Smith - 1904 - 460 pagine
...argument is based upon a from passage of Strabo (xv. 32), which states that Alexander's 'route Strabo. as far as the Hydaspes was for the most part towards the south, and thenceforward was more easterly as far as the Hypanis [= Hyphasis] ; but throughout it kept closer... | |
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the direction of Alexander's march, as far as the Hydaspes, was, for the most part, towards the south ; after that, to the Hypanis, it was more towards the east. 