The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c26.s1.94

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For almost a hundred years after the failure of Seleukos Nikator no Greek sovereign presumed to attack India. Then Antiochos the Great (*c.* 206 B. C.) marched through the hills of the country now called Afghanistan, and went home by Kandahār and Sīstān, levying a war indemnity of treasure and elephants from a local chief.¹ This brief campaign can have had no appreciable effect on the institutions of India, and its occurrence probably was unknown to many of the courts east of the Indus.