The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c10.84

c10.84

² 'Siquidem occupato regno, populum quem ab externa dominatione vindicaverat, ipse [*scil.* Sandracottus] servitio premebat . . . Molienti deinde bellum adversus praefectos Alexandri . . . Sic acquisito regno, Sandracottus ea tempestate, qua Seleucus futurae magnitudinis fundamenta iaciebat, Indiam possidebat' (Justin, xv. 4). The language does not state the order of events quite clearly, but the word *deinde* seems to imply that the palace revolution at Pātaliputra preceded the attack on Alexander's governors. In *Mudrā-Rākshasa*, Act iv, Malayaketu, the hill chieftain, observes:—