Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c5.40

c5.40

As Arrian tells us [IV. 21], a large part of the Punjab was then held by these “independent Indian tribes” whom Curtius [IX. 4] describes as “fierce nations” ready to resist Alexander “with their blood.” The kingdom which was restored by Alexander to his old enemy, king Poros (=Paurava), comprised territories held by “fifteen republican peoples owning 5000 considerable cities and villages without number” [Plutarch, *Lives*, lx].