Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c7.3
Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c7.3
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¹ Herod. IV. 44. The date of the conquest of India by Darius is between 516 B.C. and his death in 486 B.C. In the Behistūn Inscriptions (c. 516 B.C.) only Gandhāra and Paruparaesanna (Paropamisus) are mentioned. Indians are not spoken of till the Persepolis and Naksh-i-Rastam inscriptions. Hence the expedition took place about 510 B.C.