The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c19.10

c19.10

These texts comprise the whole of the direct evidence on the subject. It seems to me self-evident that the two passages of Strabo refer to the same event; and that when he says in the first that the Indians received from the Macedonians ‘a large part of Arianē ’, which had been under the rule of the Persians up to the time of Alexander, he briefly alludes to the cession of the countries west of the Indus, formerly in the possession of the Persians, which Seleukos ceded to Chandragupta, as specifically stated in the second extract.