The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c12.29

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¹ Arrian (*Anab.* iv, 27) speaks of ‘the mother and daughter of Assakenos’. Q. Curtius (viii, 10) states that ‘Assacanus, its previous sovereign, had lately died, and his mother Cleophis now ruled the city and the realm’. He adds that ‘the queen herself, having placed her son, still a child, at Alexander’s knees, obtained not only a pardon . . . at all events she afterwards gave birth to a son who received the name of Alexander, whoever his father may have been’. Apparently, Kleophis must have been the widow of the chief who was killed in the siege, according to Arrian.