The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c26.22

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The Greek geographer Ptolemy, who died after A. D. 161, and lived at Alexandria for forty years, described Ujjain as the capital of Tiastanēs, who, no doubt, is rightly identified with Chashṭana. The date of composition of the *Geography* is not known, but if the book was written about A. D. 130 the information about Tiastanēs was not many years out of date.²