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Archaeological Reconnaissances in North-Western India and South-Eastern Īrān : vol.1 |
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learned author's own location of the passage of the Hydaspes and the battle with
Poros. But since I have already had occasion above not merely to re-state that
result as I see it now, but also to indicate fully the strong topographical argu-
ments against Professor Breloer's location, I may be excused if I make my reply
brief and confine it in the main to the rectification of certain difficulties raised as
regards my determination of local details.
Before, however, I take these point by point, I wish to acknowledge that when
I wrote my paper in the field, with only a minimum of books at hand, Polyaenos's
mention of an attempt at resistance to Alexander's move towards the Hydaspes
had escaped me.²⁰ No indication is given as to the position of the narrow valley
where it is said to have occurred, and as more than one such valley must be
passed on any route leading across the Salt Range past Nandana, this stray
reference fails to afford any guidance.²¹
With regard to the first difficulty raised in Professor Breloer's comments
which concerns Arrian's ἄκρα (p. 200) I may point out that it has been recog-
nized by me in that precipitous spur projecting from the Salt Range which
terminates with its south-western corner just opposite to Jalālpur above the
eastern bank of the Kandar Kas. It is this great headland conspicuous all over
the riverine plain to which I take Arrian's description to refer. There is nothing
in my previous description to account for the misapprehension indicated by
the remark 'Sir M. A. Stein bezeichnet als Vorgebirge die Höhe westlich von
Jalālpur'. I can only assume that my mention of Jalālpur town being 'built on
rising ground at the foot of a small outlier of the range' has been wrongly
understood here as referring to the spur which ends east of the town. That this
spur is at its foot washed by the river at flood time for a distance of about 8
miles from below Dilāwar down to about a mile of Jalālpur is seen from the
Survey maps. The appearance of the cliffs along the foot of the spur for some
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