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¹ For the Maurya chronology *see Asoka, the Buddhist Emperor of India* (Clarendon Press, 3rd ed., 1909), pp. 72, 73, 74. The name Bindusāra is attested by the Hindū *Vishṇu Purāṇa*, the Jain *Pariśishṭaparvan*, and the Buddhist *Mahāvaṁśa* and *Dīpavaṁśa*. The variants in other Purāṇas seem to be merely clerical errors. Ἐπέμφθησαν μὲν γὰρ εἰς τὰ Παλίμβοθρα, ὁ μὲν Μεγασθένης πρὸς Ἀνδρόκοττον, ὁ δὲ Δηΐμαχος πρὸς Ἀμιτροχάδην τὸν ἐκείνου υἱὸν κατὰ πρεσβείαν (*Strabo*, ii, 1, 9). The more corrupt form Allitrochades occurs in some texts, and evidently is due to confusion between ΑΛΛΙ and ΑΜΙ. Hegesandros, quoted by Athenaios (Müller, *Frag. Hist. Graec.*, vol. iv, p. 421), writes Ἀμιτροχάτης, which is an accurate transcription of the supposed Sanskrit original (see Schwanbeck, op. cit., p. 77). Indian kings are often known by one or other epithet, used as a secondary name.