The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c8.11

c8.11

The Purāṇas in some form were well known to the author of the 'Questions of Milinda' (*Milindapanha*) as ancient sacred writings grouped with the Vēdas and epic poems. Book I of that work, in which the first reference occurs, is undoubtedly part of the original composition, and was almost certainly composed earlier than A. D. 300.⁵