The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c18.172

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Ptolemy Philadelphos, who ruled in Egypt from 285 to 247 B. C., also dispatched an envoy named Dionysios to the Indian Court, who, like his colleagues, wrote an account of his experiences, which was still available to Pliny in the first century of the Christian era.¹ It is uncertain whether Dionysios presented his credentials to Bindusāra or to his successor, Asoka.