Notes

Megasthenes was an ambassador to Chandragupta Maurya’s court sent by Seleucus…

Megasthenes was an ambassador to Chandragupta Maurya’s court sent by Seleucus. He lived in Patilputra for five years (302 B.C. to 298 B.C.). The account written by him of India is a source of our knowledge of that period.