The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c7.s1.9

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The Jātaka, or Birth stories, and other books of the Buddhist canon, include many incidental references to the political condition of India in the fifth and sixth centuries B. C., which although not exactly contemporary with the events alluded to, certainly transmit genuine historical tradition.¹