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Oh, rare Western sense of justice! *
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* No Philaryan would pretend for a moment on the strength of the
Piyadasi inscriptions that Alexander of Macedonia, or either of the
other sovereigns mentioned, was claimed as an actual "vassal" of
Chandragupta. They did not even pay tribute, but only a kind of
quit-rent annually for lands ceded in the north: as the grant-tablets
could show. But the inscription, however misinterpreted, shows most
clearly that Alexander was never the conqueror of India.
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Occult records show differently. They say--challenging proof to the
contrary--that Alexander never penetrated into India farther than
Taxila; which is not even quite the modern Attock. The murmuring of
the Macedonian's troops began at the same place, and not as given out,
on the banks of the Hyphasis. For having never gone to the Hydaspes or
Jhelum, he could not have been on the Sutlej. Nor did Alexander ever
found satrapies or plant any Greek colonies in the Punjab. The only
colonies he left behind him that the Brahmans ever knew of, amounted to
a few dozens of disabled soldiers, scattered hither and thither on the
frontiers; who with their native raped wives settled around the deserts
of Karmania and Drangaria--the then natural boundaries of India.
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