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  Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 704 (v. 3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The capital of Sandrocottus was Palibothra, called by the Sanscrit writers Pataliputra, probably in the neighbourhood of the modern Patna.
The Greek writers relate that the father of Sandrocottus was a man of low origin, being the son of a barber, whom the queen had married after putting her husband the king to death.
This king sent his son Sandrocottus to Alexander the Great, who was then at the Hyphasis, and he is reported to have said that Alexander might easily have conquered the eastern parts of India, since the king was hated on account of his wickedness and the meanness of his birth.
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 Misdating   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
However, if Sandrocottus refers to Chandragupta "Gupta", the Xandramas reckons to be his predecessor Chandrashree alias Chandramas and Sandrocyptus to be Samudragupta.
It is also interesting to note that the accounts in the life of Sandrokotus of the Greeks, and the political and social conditions in India at that time, match to those of in the era Chandragupta Gupta.
This misplaced identification of this Sandrocottus with Chandragupta Maurya, which also is considered to be the "sheet anchor" of Indian chronology, has led to further chronological fallacies in the dating of Asoka Maurya, the grandson of Maurya-Chandragupta.
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 Chandragupta Maurya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
With the help of these frontier warlike clans from the northwest Chandragupta managed to defeat the corrupt Nanda ruler of Magadha and later, upon Alexander's death, the Macedonian straps of Punjab and Afghanistan, thus laying the foundations of a Maurya Empire in northern India.
Megasthenes describes the size of the armies of Sandrocottus (Greek version of Chandragupta's name) at 400,000:
In addition to this matrimonial alliance, Seleucus' dispatched an ambassador, Megasthenes, to the Mauryan court at Pataliputra (Modern Patna in Bihar state).
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 Antiquity and Continuity ... (Part 5)
Ashoka Priyadarshi ---------------------- This misplaced identification of this Sandrocottus with Chandragupta Maurya, which also is considered to be the "sheet anchor" of Indian chronology, has led to further chronological fallacies in the dating of Ashoka Maurya, the grandson of Maurya- Chandragupta.
This Ashoka supposedly became a Buddhist as is confirmed from a variety of inscriptions and rock edicts found.
Now that the correct identifications of Sandrocottus of the Greeks and Ashoka of the inscriptions are determined, it is therefore possible to bring about the datelines of Lord Buddha's life.
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 Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, Book 15
He next made an expedition into India, which, after the death of Alexander, had shaken, as it were, the yoke of servitude from its neck, and put his governors to death.
The author of this liberation was Sandrocottus, who afterwards, however, turned their semblance of liberty into slavery; for, making himself king, he oppressed the people whom he had delivered from a foreign power, with a cruel tyranny.
Sandrocottus, having thus acquired a throne, was in possession of India, when Seleucus was laying the foundations of his future greatness; who, after making a league with him, and settling his affairs in the east, proceeded to join in the war against Antigonus.
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 CHAPTER VI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sometime after, as he was going to war with the generals of Alexander, a wild elephant of great bulk presented itself before him of its own accord and as tamed down to gentleness, took him his back and become his guide in the war conspicuous infields of battle.
Sandrocottus, having thus acquired a throne, was in possession of India when Seleucus was laying the foundation of his future greatness.’’
There was further feather added to the cap of Chandragupta when Seleucus Nikator, in 305-06 B.C. warred with him and "entered into an alliance and marriage affinity with him." Several Mauryan princes were associated with the city of Taxila.
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 aryaninvasion-page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In all this anarchy of Indian histography, the probable date of Mahabharata ranges between 1000 B.C.to 300 B.C. The identification of Sandrocottus (325 B.C.) of the Greeks with Chandragupta Maurya by Sir Jones was considered to be the "sheet anchor" and based on this assumption, a chronology of Indian history was constructed.
This misplaced identification of this Sandrocottus with Chandragupta Maurya, which also is considered to be the "sheet anchor" of Indian chronology, has led to further chronological fallacies in the dating of Ashoka Maurya, the grandson of Maurya-Chandragupta.
Modern history tends to inform readers that Sri Gautam Siddharta was born around 550 B.C. and died after about 80 years.
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 However, all who have written about India have proved themselves, for the most part, fabricators, but preeminently so ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
However, all who have written about India have proved themselves, for the most part, fabricators, but preeminently so Deimachus; the next in order is Megasthenes; and then Onesicritus and Nearchus and other such writers, who begin to speak the truth, though with faltering voice.
the reigning king must be surnamed after the city, being called Palibothrus in addition to his family name, as, for example, King Sandrocottus to whom Megasthenes was sent on an embassy.
Megasthenes dwelt with the satrap of Arachosia, Sibyrtius, and writes that he often visited Sandracottus, the king of the Indians.
www.und.ac.za /und/classics/india/megasth.htm   (252 words)

  
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He had his capital at Babylon and invaded India (modern Punjab, located in northern India and Pakistan) in 304 BC, which was then Muaryan empire ruled by Chandragupta Maurya.
Chandragupta Maurya (Sandrocottus according to Greek Historians) put an army of hundred thousand men and 9000 war elephants on battle field!
The sheer number of men on battlefield and the battle elephants (I guess Greeks were more worried of beasts rather than Indian soldiers) made Seluekos change his mind.
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