Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c11.122

c11.122

³ Pliny's information was not solely drawn from the contemporaries of Alexander and Seleucus. He utilised the evidence not only of "old writers" but of ambassadors who came to the early Roman emperors (Mc Crindle Ancient India as described in Classical Literature, pp. 103, 107). He speaks of a discovery of a shorter route to the Indian ports by a merchant (p. 111) in comparatively recent times.