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570 towers and 64 gates according to Megasthenes,"The greatest city ... Megasthenes describes the ultimate destruction of the city's walls: ...

Seleucus also sent Megasthenes as his ambassador to Chandragupta's court. Megasthenes visited Pataliputra (modern Patna in Bihar state) ...

several Greeks, such as the historian Megasthenes, Deimakos, and Dionysius ... at Pataliputra, which, according to Megasthenes, was "surrounded ...

in the Gulf area, had been the Palibothra of Megasthenes. Maplandia, [http://www.maplandia.com/iran/kerman/patali/ Patali.] Retrieved September ...

all that is known is based on the diaries of Megasthenes, the ambassador of Seleucus at Pataliputra. Gandhara was acquired from the Greeks by Chandragupta ...

Also several Greeks, such as the historian Megasthenes followed by ... quite considerable. The Greek ambassador Megasthenes took special note of the ...

is based on the Mauryan time ambassador to Patna, Megasthenes. ==Rigvedic period== The Rigveda is primarily a collection of religious hymns, and ...

has been disputed. In Arrian's Indica, Megasthenes has been quoted as stating that the Indians counted from Shiva (Dionysos) to Chandragupta ...

mention in the works of Herodotus, Nearchus, Megasthenes, Pliny, Ptolemy, and the geographical lists of the Puranas.Luciano Petech. 1977. The Kingdom ...

as the Samgha-mukhya. According to Megasthenes, people of this place worshipped the shepherd God Herakles, which according to many scholars was ...

mention in the works of Herodotus, Nearchus, Megasthenes, Pliny, and the geographical lists of the Puranas. Kashmir was a center for Sanskrit ...