[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) › c30.98 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c30.98 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c30.98 - **Language:** English ### [c30.98](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c30.98) Kaliṅga, the conquest of which had cost Asoka such bitter remorse nine hundred years earlier, was depopulated, and mostly covered with jungle. The pilgrim observes in picturesque language that ‘in old days the kingdom of Kaliṅga had a very dense population. Their shoulders rubbed one with the other, and the axles of their chariot wheels grided together, and when they raised their arm-sleeves a perfect tent was formed’. Legend sought to explain the change by the curse of an angry saint. - [Previous: c30.97](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c30.97) - [Next: c30.99](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c30.99) - [Up: c30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c30) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c30.98](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c30.98) · Pramāṇa