The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c30.s1.28

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This account is to some extent supported and supplemented by two examples given by the grammarian Patañjali (a contemporary of the Çuṅga king, Pushyamitra) in illustration of the use of the imperfect tense to denote an event which has recently happened—'The Yavana was besieging Sāketa: the Yavana was besieging Madhyamikā' (Nagarī, near Chitor in Rājputāna)². Such incursions brought the Yavanas into collision with the Çuṅgas who were now the predominant power in the Midland Country; and Kālidāsa's drama, the *Mālavikāgnimitra* (Act v) preserves the memory of a conflict on the banks of the river Sindhu (*v. sup.* p. 520), in which a Yavana force was defeated in the reign of Pushyamitra by the king's grandson Vasumitra.