12 TALES OF INDALUS chapter 3a

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.TALES OF INDALUS
  chapter 3a


Hindu Kush


DASYOUS TRIBE


Port of India

Where will be our next stop from here?

The Port of India   said Aaaliah
Sharvah please continue you stories Rho begged

Seems you are really interested Garsila remarked in awe..

Yes Iwant to know some a about them before we reach the port of India

Ok have you finished your dinner? said Sharvah

In ancient times before our era after the flood the descendants of Japhet lived  among theArya tribes around the mountains of Mt Ararat and Hindu Kush The Arya tribes  traversed the passes of the Hindu-Kush and swarmed into India. They found the fertile plains of the Indus inhabited by a people of dark skin, with flat heads, industrious and wealthy; they called these aborigines Dasyous . They made war on them for centuries and ended by exterminating or subjecting them; they then gradually took possession of all the Indus valley

DASYOUS PEOPLE  OF INDIA
'There was a  time when Ishtar the queen of Nineveh, the lover of King Ninnus she led the army of Nineveh to India to impress her beloved King NinnusBut the Dasyous people have made their stand. Ishtar was defeated in that war

Hundred years after India was again in a war against the greatest warrior of all timE... Alexander the great

After Alexander have defeated the Persian Empire

Alexander DestroyEDthe City of the Getae.—.

They crossed over by night to a spot where the corn stood high; and in this way they reached the bank more secretly. At the approach of dawn Alexander led his men through the field of standing corn, ordering the infantry to lean upon the corn with their pikes held transversely, and thus to advance into the untilled ground. As long as the phalanx was advancing through the standing corn, the cavalry followed; but when they marched out of the tilled land, Alexander himself led the horse round to the right wing, and commanded Nicanor to lead the phalanx in a square. The Getae did not even sustain the first charge of the cavalry; for Alexander’s audacity 17seemed incredible to them

Alexander Crosses the Hindu-Koosh.

 against Bactra and Bessus, reducing the Drangians and Gadrosians  to subjection on his march. He also re

197duced the Arachotians to subjection and appointed Menon viceroy over them. 






lands of Bactra and Bessus Indalus  near India



woman of arya ribe
He then reached the India  who inhabit the land bordering on that of the Arachotians. All these nations he reached marching through deep snow and his soldiers experiencing scarcity of provisions and severe hardship. Learning that the Areians had again revolted, in consequence of Satibarzanes invading their land with 2,000 cavalry, which he had received from Bessus, he despatched against them Artabazus the Persian with Erigyius and Caranus two of the Companions, also ordering Phrataphernes, viceroy of the Parthians, to assist them in attacking the Areians. An obstinately contested battle then took place between the troops of Erigyius and Caranus and those of Satibarzanes;

Meantime Alexander was leading his army towards Mount Caucasus   where he founded a city and named it Alexandreia  Bessus, accompanied by the Persians who had taken part with him in the seizure of Darius, and by 7,000 of the Bactrians themselves and the Daans who dwelt on this side the Tanais

 was laying waste the country at the foot of Mount Caucasus, in order to prevent Alexander from marching any further, both by the desolation of the land between the enemy and himself and by the lack of provisions



  

Exploits in Sogdiana

Here Ptolemy learned that Spitamenes and Dataphernes were not firmly resolved about the betrayal of Bessus. He therefore left the infantry behind with orders to follow him in regular order, and advanced with the cavalry till he arrived at a certain village, where Bessus was with a few soldiers; for Spitamenes and his party had already retired from thence

 Ptolemy posted his cavalry right round the village, which was enclosed by a wall supplied with gates. He then issued a proclamation to the barbarians in the village,  Alexander supplied his cavalry with horses from that district, for many of his own horses had perished in the passage of the Caucasus and in the march to and from the Oxus. He then led his army to Maracanda  which is the capital of the land of the Sogdianians. Thence he advanced to the river Tanais   There are some who make this Tanais the boundary of Europe 

203and Asia, saying that the Palus Maeotis

Rebellion of the Sogdianians

This nation dwells in Asia and is independent, chiefly by reason of its poverty and love of justice. Envoys also came from the Scythians of Europe, who are the largest nation dwelling in that continent. Alexander sent some of the Companions with them, under the pretext indeed that they were to conclude a friendly alliance by the embassy; but the real object of the mission was rather to spy into the natural features of the Scythian land, the number of the inhabitants and their customs, as well as the armaments which they possessed for making military expeditions

Capture of Five Cities in Two Days.

When Alexander was informed of this, he gave instructions to the infantry, company by company, to prepare the ladders which were assigned to each company. He then started from the camp and advanced to the nearest city, the name of which was Gaza; for the barbarians of the land were said to have fled for refuge into seven cities. He sent Craterus to the one called Cyropolis, 207the largest of them all, into which most of the barbarians had gathered  The orders of Craterus were to encamp near the city, to dig a trench round it, to surround it with a stockade, and to fix together the military engines which were required for use, so that the men in this city, having had their attention drawn to his forces, might be unable to render aid to the other cities. As soon as Alexander arrived at Gaza, without any delay he gave the signal to his men to place the ladders against the wall all round and to take it by assault at once, as it was made merely of earth and was not at all high. Simultaneously with the assault of the infantry, his slingers, archers, and javelin-throwers 

Storming of Cyropolis

he went to Cyropolis, the largest city in the country. It was fortified with a wall higher than those of the others  

Alexander brought his military engines up to the wall with the determination of battering it down in this way, and of making assaults wherever breaches might be made in it. When be observed that the channel of the river, which flows through the city when it is swollen by the winter rains, was at that time nearly dry and did not reach up to the wall,

Meantime, those who had made the assault upon the wall, took it, as it was now void of defenders. In the first capture of the city about 8,000 of the enemy were killed. The rest fled for refuge into the citadel; for 15,000 warriors in all had gathered together in the city. Alexander encamped around these and besieged them for one day

 and then they surrendered through lack of water. The seventh city he took at the first assault. Ptolemy says that the men in it surrendered; but Aristobulus asserts that this city was also taken by storm, and that he slew all who were captured therein. Ptolemy also says that he distributed the men among the army and ordered that they should be kept guarded in chains until he should depart from the country, so that none of those who had effected the revolt should be left behind. Meantime an army of the Asiatic Scythians arrived at the bank of the river Tanais   because most of them had heard that some of the barbarians on the opposite side of the river had revolted from Alexander. They intended to attack the Macedonians, if any revolutionary movement worthy of consideration were effected. News 

210was also brought that Spitamenes was besieging the men who had been left in the citadel at Maracanda

Defeat of the Scythians beyond the Tanais.

Aristander refused to explain the will of the gods contrary to the revelations made by the deity simply because Alexander wished to hear the contrary. When the skins had been prepared for the passage, and the army, fully equipped, had been posted near the river, the military engines, at the signal pre-concerted, began to shoot at the Scythians riding along the river’s bank. Some of them were wounded by the missiles

 Aristobulus says the greater part of this army was destroyed by an ambuscade, the Scythians having hidden themselves in a park and fallen upon the Macedonians from their place of concealment, when Pharnuches was in the very act of retiring from the command in favour of the Macedonians who had been sent with him, on the ground of his not being skilled in military affairs, and of his having been sent by Alexander rather to win the favour of the barbarians than to take the supreme command in battles. He also alleged that the Macedonian215 officers present were the king’s Companions. But Andromachus, Menedemus, and Caranus declined to accept the chief command,

aLEXANDER THE gREAT

Ninnus king of Nineveh
After the war in India
Ninus,  conquered all of Lud kingdom and his wife, Ishtar , had subjected Egypt, 



Lud Kindom conquerred by Ninnnus

Dasyous people are makers of Potsthey are also called Khumbhar
They are using it to cook rice and wheat 

Kumbhār.—The caste of potters, the name being derived from the Sanskrit kumbh, a water-pot.

The Kumhārs were numerous in the Central Provinces in and were most numerous in the northern and eastern or Hindustāni-speaking


THE WAR BETWEEN NINEVEH AND INDIA




Ishtar, the Queen of Nineveh


The Army from Nineveh



Dasyous warriors