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

by Max Duncker

[645] Justin, 15, 4.

[646] "Alex." c. 62.

[647] Droysen, "Hellenismus," 1, 319.

[648] "Mahavanaça," ed. Turnour, p. 39 ff. Westergaard, "Buddha's Todesjahr," s. 113.

[649] We can hardly make any use of the description in the drama of Mudra-Rakshasa, which was composed after 1000 A.D. (in Lassen, "Ind. Alterth." 2², 211), for the history of Chandragupta.

[650] Pliny ("Hist. Nat." 6, 27) gives 600,000 foot soldiers, 30,000 horse, and 9000 elephants.

[651] Megasthenes in Strabo, p. 707.

[652] Strabo, p. 69, 689, 690.

[653] Manu, 9, 282; supra, p. 387.

[654] Strabo, p. 708.