The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c15.11

c15.11

Exact certitude is not attainable, and it is not possible to go much beyond the remark of Grote, that ‘as far as an opinion can be formed, it would seem that the battle was fought about the end of June, or beginning of July 326 B. C., after the rainy season had commenced; towards the close of the archonship of Hēgemōn, and the beginning of that of Chremēs'.¹ I accept the archonship of Hēgemōn on the authority of Arrian, and believe that the battle took place early in July 326 B. C., in the last month, Skeirophorion, of the Attic year, a few days before Chremēs became archon.