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Megasthenes, the Greek visitor to India, is the most well-known Greek who visited India. The famous work that he wrote, Indica, doesn't survive today, but the fragments of this work that we have today provide us great information about Ancient India. In this video, we look at some of the claims that is associated with Megasthenes and his Indica.
Reference:-
1. Megasthens' Indica, a new translation of Richard Stoneman
2. The Historical Setting of Megasthenes' Indica
3. Seleukos and Chandragupta in Justin XV by P Wheatley
4. The Greek Experience of India by Richard Stoneman
5. Alexander and the East by A B Bosworth
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Inputs on the script by Pushkar Chaudhary.
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