The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c24.177

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We may also take Megasthenes to be the authority for the statement of Arrian (*Indica*, IX, 10; and cf. V, 4–7) that, according to the Indians, no one before Alexander, with the exception of Dionysus and Hercules, had invaded their country, 'not even Cyrus, the son of Cambyses, although he marched against the Scythians and showed himself in other respects the most enterprising of Asiatic monarchs'.