Note 172 — Chapter XV · —Appointment of Satraps—Voyage down the Indus to the dominions of Mousikanos, who tenders his submission

The Xathroi are the Kshâtri of Sanskrit mentioned in the Laws of Manu as an impure tribe, being of mixed origin. In Williams’s Sanskrit Dictionary a Kshâtri is defined as “a man of the second (i.e. military) caste (by a woman of another caste?).”