[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916) › c8.2 # Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c8.2 Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c8.2 - **Language:** English ### [c8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c8.2) IN 329 B.C., the long peace of India was rudely disturbed. The army of Alexander entered the Panjāb, and beating down the desperate opposition of the various tribes who tried to bar its way, penetrated to the banks of the Hyphasis. Alexander had now reached the utmost limits of the Persian Empire. Before him lay a vast and unknown country. Some said that the sandy deserts which lay around, stretched to the end of the world, inhabited, perhaps, by the strange monsters described by the pen of Ktesias. Alexander, however, had heard rumours of a vast nation, the Prasii, ruled by a king named Xandrames, who had a mighty army¹, and he was anxious to push on and try conclusions with him. - [Previous: c7.s1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c7.s1.14) - [Next: c8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c8.3) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c8.2) · Pramāṇa