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(7) That Chandragupta Maurya was a Persian. Persepolis was his ancestral home (p. 409); he probably came with Alexander and was left behind to occupy the throne at Magadha, and made Persian architects build palaces after the Persian model, remains of which, even with Persian's mason's marks, are fancied to have been explored at Patna (pp. 422, 427).