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The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.172

The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.172

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c29.172

With reference apparently to the same date approximately, the monk Cosmas Indicopleustes, who wrote a curious book in A. D. 547, describes a White Hun king, whom he calls Gollas, as being lord of India, from which he exacted tribute by oppression, enforcing his demands with the aid of two thousand war elephants and a great host of cavalry. This king, Gollas, certainly must have been Mihiragula.¹