Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s7.245
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s7.245
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³ *Ind. Ant.*, 1902, 143, ff; 1908, p. 78. There is very little in Vidyābhūshaṇa's surmise except a fancied resemblance between the names Nichchbivi and Nisibis. Inscriptions of the Achaemenids are silent about any Persian settlement in Eastern India in the sixth or fifth century B.C. The Lichchhavi people were more interested in Yaksha *Chaityas* and the teaching of Mahāvīra and the Buddha than in the deities and prophets of Irān.