The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c24.s1.8

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The second invasion of Khāravela, four years later, was, however, more successful. Entering Northern India and marching at the foot of the Himalayas, he suddenly appeared before the capital of Magadha on the north side of the Ganges, which he crossed with the help of the famous elephants of Kalinga. Pushyamitra was forced to submit, and the treasures of his capital were seized by the victor, among them being a statue of the first Jina (Rishabhadeva), which had been carried away from Kalinga three centuries earlier by King Nanda I.³