Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c5.42

c5.42

Alexander had its first taste from the tribal chief whom the Greeks call Astes corresponding to Sanskrit *Hastin*, the chief of the people known by the Indian name of *Hāstināyana* [Pāṇini, VI. 4, 174], Greek *Astakenoi* or *Astanenoi*, with his capital at Peukelaotis or Pushkalāvatī. This heroic chief stood the Greek siege of his walled town for full thirty days till he fell fighting.