Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c43.t1.367

v3.c43.t1.367

¹ [An account of the Indian embassy to Augustus is given by Strabo (xv. 73, with the notes of M'Crindle, Ancient India in Classical Literature, 77 ff.; O. de Beauvoir Priaulx, Indian Travels of Apollonius of Tyana (1873), 65 ff.). It was suggested by d'Anville that the king named Porus who sent the embassy was a Rāna of Ujjain who claimed descent from the Porus who was defeated by Alexander the Great. But the only foundation for this guess is that the embassy included a man from Barygaza, the modern Broach, who committed suicide by means of fire. There is no truth in the story that Seleucus sent Greek auxiliaries to the Pawār monarch of Ujjain, and the statements in the text lack authority.]