The Classical Accounts of India c23.6
The Classical Accounts of India c23.6
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c23.6
In this narrative, the king of kings Porus, the Greek letter, the beggerly presents better suited to a juggler’s booth than to the court of a great sovereign, strike us with surprise; and we ask whether an Indian, or what purported to be an Indian Embassy, and such an embassy as described by Damascenus, ever presented itself to Augustus, and by whom and from what part of India it could have been sent?