[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s5.4 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.4 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.4 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.4) 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. - [Previous: v2.c19.s5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.3) - [Next: v2.c19.s5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.5) - [Up: v2.c19.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.4) · Pramāṇa