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³ ³⁾ *A. V. Gutschmid*, Geschichte Irans und seiner Nachbarländer, Tübingen 1888, p. 104, gives the approximate dates of Menander's reign as 125-95 B.C. According to *Smith*, Early History, pp. 227 ff., 239, 258, Menander invaded India in about 155 B.C., "but Gardner places him about 110 B.C." *H. Raychaudhuri* (Political History of Ancient India, Calcutta 1923, pp 204 ff., 209), whose view is shared by *L. D. Barnett* (Calcutta Review, Feb. 1924, p. 250), places Menander in the first century B.C., and, (according to Benoytosh Bhattacharya, The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Oxford, 1924, p. xxi) *R. C. Mazumdar* is said to have proved "that a date prior to 90 B C. cannot be assigned to Menander." (Bhattacharya gives no reference, so I do not know Mazumdar's arguments.) See also *Rapson*, Cambridge History, I, 547 ff.