The Classical Accounts of India c7.4

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c7.4

Darius, son of Hystaspes, set up twenty Satrapies (Provincial Governorships), and assessed each nation for taxes.
(A list of Satrapies is given)
Twentieth: The Indians, the most populous of all the nations in the world, paid the largest sum,—360 talents of gold-dust. (Book III, 97)

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