The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.37

c5.37

Bindusāra, Maurya, succeeds his father Chandragupta. By the Greeks he is known as Amitrochates, *i.e.* Amitraghāta. Daimachos was sent to him as ambassador by Antiokhos, and Dionysios by Ptolemy Philadelphos. Bindusāra is stated by the *Mahāvaṃśa* to have reigned twenty-eight years, by the *Vāyu Purāṇa*, which calls him Bhadrasāra, twenty-five years.—MV., chap. v. LIA. ii, 222 ff., 1207. Droysen, *Gesch. des Hellenismus*, vol. iii, bk. 1, 80.