Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s2.23
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s2.23
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c9.s2.23
“The Greeks are described as a western people and their overthrow is alluded to……The Romans, Romakas, are mentioned but once, in a formal list of all possible peoples, II. 51.17, and stand thus in marked contrast to Greeks and Persians, Pahlavas, who are mentioned very often……The distinct prophecy that ‘Scythians, Greeks and Bactrians will rule unrighteously in the evil age to come' which occurs in III. 188.35 is too clear a statement to be ignored or explained away."