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[4] The king praised them and agreed to a peace, and was showered with large gifts and heroic honours by them.

Next Alexander received the submission of those who dwelt on either side of the river; they were called Sodrae and Massani.1 Here he built a city Alexandria by the river, and selected for it ten thousand inhabitants.2

1 Curtius 9.8.8 merely says "another nation." The ethnic Sodrae recalls the name of the lowest Hindu caste, the Sudras.

2 Curtius 9.8.8; Arrian. 6.15.2 (at the junction of the Acesines and the Indus).

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