Oritae

[3] The Oritae were a people inhabiting the sea-coast of Gedrosia, with whom Alexander fell in on his march from the Indus to Persia in 326 BC.

[4] Their territory appears to have been bounded on the east by the Arabis, and on the west by a mountain spur which reached the sea at Cape Moran.

[3] There is considerable variation in the manner in which their names are written in different authorities: thus they appear as Oritae in Arrian;[5] Oritai (Ὠρῖται) in Strabo,[6] Dionysius Periegetes,[7] Plutarch,[8] and Stephanus Byzantinus;[2] as Ori or Oroi (Ὦροι) in Arrian[9] and Pliny;[10] and Horitae in Curtius.

According to the former, they were an Indian nation,[12] who wore the same arms and dress as those people, but differed from them in manners and institutions.

[14][3] In another place Arrian appears to have given the true Indians to the river Arabis (or Purali), the eastern boundary of the Oritae;[15] and the same view is taken by Pliny.