[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) › c14.17 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c14.17 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c14.17 - **Language:** English ### [c14.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c14.17) The second and more important argument is based upon a passage of Strabo (xv, 32), which states that Alexander’s ‘route as far as the Hydaspes was for the most part towards the south, and thenceforward was more easterly as far as the Hypanis \[= Hyphasis\]; but throughout it kept closer to the foot of the mountains than to the plains’.³ - [Previous: c14.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c14.16) - [Next: c14.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c14.18) - [Up: c14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c14) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c14.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c14.17) · Pramāṇa