Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c8.39

c8.39

¹ That some such road as far as the Beās existed in the days of Alexander is of course implied in the statement that he obtained the measurements from the records of Alexander's survey officers. A road from Ayodhya to Rājagṛiha, *viâ* Hastināpura, is mentioned in the *Rāmāyaṇa*.