The History of Antiquity, Vol. 4 (of 6)

by Max Duncker

[634] Ctesias, loc. cit. "ecl." 19-21. Aelian, "Hist. Anim." 4, 46.

[635] Ctesias, loc. cit. "ecl." 28. Lassen, loc. cit. 2, 560.

[636] Strabo. p. 717. Arrian, "Ind." 16, 6; supra, p. 404.

[637] Arrian, "Ind." 16, 11. Strabo, p. 717. Aelian, "Hist. Anim." 3, 16.

[638] Strabo, p. 709.

[639] Strabo, p. 714, 708. Arrian, "Ind." 7, 9. Curtius, 8, 14, supra, p. 89.

CHAPTER VI.

CHANDRAGUPTA OF MAGADHA.

The life of the Indians had developed without interference from without, following the nature of the country and the impulse of their own dispositions. Neither Cyrus nor Darius had crossed the Indus. The arms of the Macedonians were the first to reach and subjugate the land of the Panjab. The character and manners of another nation, whose skill in war, power, and importance only made themselves felt too plainly, and to whom civilisation and success could not be denied, were not only suddenly brought into immediate proximity to the Indians, but had the most direct influence upon them.