Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c5.52
Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c5.52
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c5.52
In the campaigns of the lower Indus, the number of killed alone amounted to 80,000. In this region, it was the Brāhmans who took the lead and created the spirit of resistance and war fever, and cheerfully sacrificed their lives in the defence of their *Dharma* [Plutarch, *Lives*, lix; *Cambridge History*, I. p. 378].