The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c26.s1.92
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c26.s1.92
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¹ The duties of the officers maintained by Chandragupta to 'attend to the entertainment of foreigners' (Strabo, xv, 1, 50-2) were identical with those of the Greek *proxenoi* (πρόξενοι), and it is possible, though not proved, that the Indian institution may have been borrowed from the Greek (Newton, *Essays on Art and Archaeology*, p. 121; *Ind. Ant.*, 1905, p. 200).