The Mauryan Polity c5.s3.3

c5.s3.3

The remarks of Otto Stein in the above passage demonstrate how on a feeble foundation a theory is being built by him. No theory can stand by mere comparison or contrast of two sets of documents, one foreign and the other indigenous, which treat, in Stein's own words, of different subject-matter. The following reasons could be adduced in favour of the theory that Megasthenes' Fragments could not be taken seriously as a source of evidence for reconstructing the history of Mauryan India.