The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.34

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| 324 | and marches himself with a small division to the same capital by way of Pasargadai and Persepolis. At the village of Ahwāz, on the river Eulaios (the Ulaï of Daniel and now the Karun), towards the end of February, he finds Nearkhos and the fleet. At Susa, Kalanos the gymnosophist, who had accompanied him from Taxila, burns himself on a funeral pile. Towards the end of the year Alexander goes to Ekbatana, where he loses his favourite Hēphaistiōn. |
| 323 | Alexander returns, early in spring, to Babylon, where he is cut off, in June, by malarious fever. |
| 321 | Second division of the Makedonian Empire at Triparadeisos. Sibyrtios confirmed in the government of Gedrōsia and Arakhōsia, Oxyartēs in that of the Paropamisos, Peithōn in that of the Cis-Indian territory, Taxilēs in that of the country on the Hydaspēs, and Pōros in that of the lower Indus.—Droysen, *Gesch. des Hellenismus*, vol. ii, bk. 1, 143–4. |
| 317 | Eudēmos, the military governor of the Panjab, treacherously murders Pōros, to whom, along with Taxilēs, the civil administration had been entrusted, and takes possession of his kingdom. Later in the same year Eudēmos joins Eumenēs in Susiana against Antigonos. His departure from India is fatal to the Greek power there. Sandrokottos (Chandragupta) leads the revolt against foreign ascendancy and makes himself master of the Panjab. |
| 315 | Chandragupta establishes the Maurya dynasty at Pāṭaliputra. The chronology of this dynasty and that of Buddha's death are determined by the initial date assigned to this king (see B.C. 477). The outside termini for his accession are the years 320 and 310 B.C., but historical evidence inclines to B.C. 315 or 312, the latter being coincident with the Seleukidan era. The *Vāyu Purāṇa*, the *Dīpavaṃśa*, and the *Aṭṭhakathā* all assign Chandragupta a reign of twenty-four years. His history is the subject of Viśakhadatta's play—the *Mūdrarākshasa*.—MV., chap. v. Max Müller, *Hist. Anc. Sans. Lit.* 298. Kern, *Geschiedenis van het Buddhisme in Indië*, ii, 266, note. LIA. ii, 64–5, 222, 1207. SBE. xxii, Int. x ff. JRAS., n.s., xv, 77. IA. vi, 154 ff.; xx, 242. Wilson, *Theatre* ii, 127–150. See Appendix. |