Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c9.s28.2

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¹ Nearchus in Strabo, XV, 1, 66 (p. 72): Onesicritus *ib.* 63-5 (pp. 69-72). Aristobulus, *ib.* 61 (pp. 68-9): Megasthenes, *ib.* 58-60 (pp. 64-67)-Frag. XLI (pp. 97-103). Plutarch, chh. 64-5 of his Life of Alexander for which see McCrindle, *Invasion*, pp. 313-15. Also a short account of Curtius, VIII, ch. ix (p. 190). Diodorus, XVII, ch. 107 (p. 301) on self-immolation of Kalanos; also Strabo, XV, 1, 68 (pp. 73-4). Lastly, McCrindle, *Invasion*, pp. 386-92 on Kalanos. For a recent criticism, somewhat too subjective, of these accounts, see Tarn, *The Greeks in Bactria and India*, pp. 428-31, who discounts Onesicritus completely and says; 'Onesikritos indeed put out a story that Alexander had not talked to the men himself but had sent him to do it: but he could do no better than make one of his Indians give the ordinary Greek account of the Golden Age and the other talk a few cynical common places, and his version never exercised any influence'. Plutarch (ch. 65, opening sentences) believed that Alexander met the sages himself and also sent Onesicritus to them.