The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c18.34

c18.34

In the midst of all the gold and glitter, and in spite of the most elaborate precautions, uneasy lay the head that wore the crown. The king's life was so constantly threatened by plots that he dared not incur the risk either of sleeping in the day-time or occupying the same bedroom two nights in succession.¹ The dramatist brings vividly before us the astuteness of the Brahman counsellor who detected the plots of both the poisoners and