[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) › c18.161 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c18.161 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c18.161 - **Language:** English ### [c18.161](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c18.161) ² The Śaka satraps of Saurāshtra, or Kāthiāwār, in Western India, were conquered by Chandragupta (II) Vikramāditya, of the Gupta dynasty, about A. D. 390. See 'Persian Influence on Maurya India', \*Ind. Ant.\* (1905), p. 201. A patriotic Hindu critic urges that Chandragupta needed to go no farther for his model than the story of Daśaratha in the Rāmāyaṇa. - [Previous: c18.160](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c18.160) - [Next: c18.162](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c18.162) - [Up: c18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c18) ## Linked texts (1) - [Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.valmiki) — Vālmīki, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c18.161](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c18.161) · Pramāṇa