Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c4.9

c4.9

The writings of these companions of Alexander were supplemented in the third century B.C. by those of some European ambassadors who were sent by the Hellenistic kings to India. Of these, Megasthenes was unfortunately the only one who utilised his opportunities properly and has left the fullest account of India in classical literature. His account, however, is lost in the original and can be traced only in the citations of later writers among whom the following may be noted: