[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924) › c29.192 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.192 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.192 - **Language:** English ### [c29.192](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c29.192) ³ Bühler, \*Ep. Ind.\*, i, 225: Sylvain Lévi, \*Notes chinoises sur l'Inde\*, No. iii, 'La Date de Candragomin' (Hanoi, 1903), p. 25. See also Tod's \*Annals and Antiquities of Rājasthān\* (ed. Crooke, 1920, vol. i, pp. 131–3, and list facing p. 98). A Brahman poet of Southern India, writing about A. D. 1600, applied the term Hūna to the Portuguese, whom he described as ‘very despicable, devoid of tenderness, regardless of Brahmans, and careless of ceremonial purity’ (Burnell, cited by Morse Stephens, \*Albuquerque\*, p. 206). - [Previous: c29.191](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c29.191) - [Next: c29.193](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c29.193) - [Up: c29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c29) ## Cites (1) - [A Chandella inscription from Mahoba](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.central.candella.a-chandella-inscription-from-mahoba) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c29.192](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c29.192) · Pramāṇa