Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c8.3

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¹ Plutarch, *Vit. Alex.* 62 The word Prasii, used by Greek writers of the kingdom of Magadha, is probably the Sanskrit *Prāchya*, Eastern. Xandrames may be Nanda Rāja. He is called Angrammes by Curtius (IX. 2). His real name was Mahāpadma. Πράξιοι, Πραίσιοι, Πραῦσιοι, Βρήσιοι, *Pharrasii* are other forms of Πράσιοι, found in Greek and Latin literature (Schwanbeck, p. 82, n.). Cunningham prefers to derive the word from *Parāsa* (*Palāsa*), a name sometimes given to Magadha, derived from the Palāśa tree (*Butea frondosa*).