Page image — the source of record
Machine transcription
230
son Asoka is appointed Viceroy of Northern India.
272 B. C. Accession of Asoka to the Mauryan throne.
c. 250 B. C. Bactria and Parthia assert their independence. Diododotus I, Governor of Bactria, lays the foundation of the Græco-Bactrian Kingdom at Balkh.
c. 240-230 B. C. Diodotus II rules over Bactria and Sogdiana.
232 B. C. Death of Asoka; break-up of the Mauryan Empire begins.
c. 227-189 B. C. Eutheydemus, King of Aryana.
212-206 B. C. About 212 B. C., Antiochus III appears in the east at the head of a large army determined to reassert the Selucid supremacy over the rebel-lious kingdoms of Parthia and Bactria. After reducing Parthia he turns his arms against Bactria (208 B. C.). After a siege of two years he is forced to conclude a peace and give his daughter in marriage to Demetrius, son of Eutheydemus.
206 B. C. Eutheydemus avails himself of the break-up of the Mauryan Empire and conquers the whole of Eastern and Southern Afghanistan.
c. 189-167 B. C. Demetrius, King of Aryana, extends his empire as far as Pataliputra and Malwa and adopts the proud title of "Invinctus," that is Invincible, and "King of the Indians".
c. 167 B. C. Eucratides wrests power from Demetrius, first in Bactria and then in Parapomisadae. Ultimate-ly he sustains a crushing defeat at the hands of
Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting. How this was measured.