The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c24.227
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³ Later Jewish tradition has the same formulaic description for the empire of Xerxes (Ahasuerus) as for that of Darius (cf. p. 339, above); thus in the Book of Esther, I, 1 (cf. also VIII, 9), Xerxes is styled 'Ahasuerus which reigned from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces.'