The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c25.13

c25.13

Assuming that Pushyamitra died in 149 B. C., after a reign of thirty-six years, as stated in the best Purānic texts, the invasion of Menander may be assigned to the years 156–153 B. C., a date fully in accordance with the numismatic evidence.¹ Coins of Menander are common in India, both in the Panjāb and farther east and south. Forty of his coins were found in the Hamīrpur district to the south of the Jumna in 1877, and brought to the author, then on duty in that district. They were associated with coins of Eukratides, Apollodotos Soter, and Antimachos Nikēphoros, and were in good condition (*Ind. Ant.*, 1904, p. 217).