[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924) › c10.77 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c10.77 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c10.77 - **Language:** English ### [c10.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c10.77) ¹ K. P. Jayaswal interprets \*nava-Nandāh\* as meaning the 'new', not the 'nine Nandas'. See \*J. B. O. Res. Soc.\* iv. 91–5. On this supposition they must be distinguished from Kshemendra's \*Pūrvanandāh\*, the 'early' Nandas, namely Nanda(or Nandi)vardhana and Mahānanda (or -nandin). Harit Krishna Deb (ibid.) gives good reasons for believing that Chandragupta Maurya was a kinsman of the respectable early Nandas and not a Sūdra or low-caste man, like the later Nandas of ill-repute. - [Previous: c10.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c10.76) - [Next: c10.78](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c10.78) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c10.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c10.77) · Pramāṇa