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1200-1000 Chbandas period of Indian literature: the earliest hymns of the
Rigveda (p. 100).
1000 - 800 Mantra period, sometimes called the earlier Brāhmaṇa period :
later hymns of the Rigveda and the Vedic collections-
Rigveda, Yajurveda, Sāmaveda, Atharvaveda (p. 100)
The tradition of the Puräņas places the war between the Kurus
and the Pāņdus in the earlier Brāhmaṇa period, c. 1000 B. C.
(p. 274). The Mahābhārata which celebrates this war be-
longs in its present form to a much later date (pp. 225 ff).
800-600 (Later) Brāhmaṇa period : the extant Brāhmaṇas (p. 100).
The earliest Upanishads are probably not later than 550 or
600 B. C. (pp. 100, 131).
It is possible that the story of the Rāmāyaṇa may have its
origin in the later Brāhmaṇa period (p. 283).
600-200 Sütra period (pp. 100, 97).
563 -483 Siddārtha Gautama, the Buddha (pp. 152. 3, 278).
According to Charpentier, 478 (477) B. C. appears to be a more
probable date for the nirvāṇa of the Buddha (p. 139 n. 2).
Among the contemporaries of the Buddha were Prasenajit
(Pasenadi) king of Kosala (pp. 160, 275), Bimbisāra
(Creņika) and Ajātaçatru (Ajātasattu, Kiüņka), kings of
Magadha (pp. 162-3, 277), Pradyota (Pajjota), king of Avanti
(pp. 165, 276-7), and Udayana (Udena), king of Vasta
(Vamsa) pp. 167, 275, 276. )
558–530 Cyrus, king of Persia.
Conquered Bactria and certain countries in Kābul valley
and N. W. India including Kāpica and Gandhāra (pp. 162,
294-98).
543-491 Bimbisāra (Çrenika), king of Magadha (pp. 140, 162, 277-8).
Conquered Anga c. 500 B. c. (pp. 277, 281).
540-468 Vardhamāna Nāta putra, Mahāvira (pp. 139, 145).
Traditional date 600-528 B. c. (p. 138).
Pārçva, the predecessor of Mahāvira as tirthakara, is said to
have died 250 years before him. (p. 137).
For the contemporaries of Mahāvira and Buddha v. sup.
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B. C.
522-486 Darius I, king of Persia.
The Greek geographer Hecataeus lived in his reign (pp. 301, n.
2, 354).
Naval expedition of Scylax c. 517 B. C. ; conquest of 'India'=
the country of the Indus o. 518 B. C. (pp. 300-1).
491-459 Ajātaçatru (Kūņika), king of Magadha (pp. 140, 277-8)
Probably added Kāçi, Kosala, and Videha to the dominions of
Magadha (p. 281).
486-465 Xerxes, king of Persia.
The continuance of Persian domination in Northern India
during his reign proved by statements of Herodotus (p. 301).
483 B. C. -38A. D. Kings of Ceylon.
Vijaya, the conqueror of the island, 483-445 b. c. (p. 549);
Pandu Vasudeva 444-414 B. C. ; Abhaya 414-394
B. C. ;
Pandukābhaya 377-307 B. C. (p. 550); Mutasiva 307-247 B. C. ;
Devānampiya Tissa 247-207 BC. ; Uttiya 207-197 B. C. Mahā-
siva 197-187 B. C. ; Sūra Tissa 187-177 B. C, ; Sena and Guttaka
177-155 B. C. ; Asela 155-145 B. C. ; Eļāra 145-101 B C. (p. 551);
Duttha-Gāmaņi. 101-77 B. C. Saddha-Tissa 77-59 B. C. ; (p.
552); Thūlathana 59 B. C. Lañja Tissa 59. 50 B. C. ; Khallātarāga
50-44 B. C. ; Vatta-Gāmaņi Abhaya 44, 29-17 B. C. Mahāchūli
Mahātissa 17-3 B. C. ; Choranāga 3 B. C. -9 A. D. ; Kudā Tissa
9. 12 A. D. (p. 610) ; Kuțakanpa Tissa 16-38 A. D. (p. 554).
415-397 Ctesias, the Greek physician, at the court of Artaxerxes
Mnēmon, king of Persia (p. 356).
336-323 Alexander the Great, king of Macedon.
Conquest of Persia 330 B. C. : a statement of Arrian shows that
Persian dominion in India continued until the end of the
Achaemenian dynasty (p. 305).
Invasion of India at the end of 327 or the beginning of 326
B. C. (p. 318).
Retreat from the Beas, July 326 B. c. (p. 334).
Leaves India 325 B. C. (p. 341).
Death 323 B. C. (p. 346).
321-184 The Maurya Dynasty (pp. 424, 462).
Chandragupta 321-297 B. c. (pp. 424-5).
The Jain Authorities give the year of his accession as 313 (312)
B. C. , a date at which the canon of the Jain scriptures was
fixed (p. 435).
Megasthenes at the court of Chandragupta c. 300 B. C.
c
(pp. 389, 425).
Bindusāra or Amitrochates, successor of Chandragupta : his
reign variously stated as of 25, 27, or 28 years (pp. 389, 446).
Açoka 274-237 B. C. Accession 274 B. C. at latest ; coronation
270 B. C. at latest; conquest of Kalinga 262 B. C. at latest ;
Buddhist council at Pāțaliputra 253 B. C. ? ; death 237 or
236 B. C. ? (p. 453).
Contemporary Hellenic kings – Antiochus II Theos of Syria
261-246 B. C. ; Ptolemy Philadelphus of Egypt 285-247 B. C. ;
Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon 278-239 B. C. ; Mayas of
Cyrene d. 258 B. C.
: Alexander of Epirus 272-258 B. C. ?
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B. C.
312-280
250
246
220
-
206
Contemporary king of Ceylon-Devānampiya Tissa 247-207
B. c. (p. 551).
Successors of Açoka (pp. 460-62).
Seleucus Nicator, king of Syria (p. 386).
Indian expedition c. 305 B. C. (p. 387).
Treaty of peace with Chandragupta (pp. 388, 425).
Approximate date of the establishment of the kingdom of
Bactria by Diodotus (p. 39! ) and of the kingdom of Parthia
by Arsaces (p. 395).
Conversion of Ceylon by the Buddhist apostle Mahendra
(Mahinda), the son (or brother, p. 451, n. 4) of Açoka, in
the year of the coronation of king Devānampiya Tissa
(p. 551).
Approximate date of the establishment of the Andhra power
(Çātavāhana dynasty, pp. 283-4, 477, n. 2, 543) and of the
kingdom of Kalinga (Cheta dynasty, pp. 481-82).
Early Andhra kings-Simuka (pp. 284, 477, 543) ; Krishņa
(pp. 477, 482, 543) ; Çātakarni, contemporary with Pushya-
mitra, probably conquered
conquered Avanti from
from the Çungas
(pp. 477-9), also contemporary with Khāravela, v. inf.
King of Kalinga-Kbāravela (acc. c. 169 B. c. if the Hāthi-
gumphā inser, is dated in the Maurya era) (pp. 280-81, 481,
f. , 545) ; invaded the dominions of Çātakarni (pp. 482-83,
544) ; defeated kings of Rājagriha and Magadha (pp.
483. 84, 544).
Indian expedition of Antiochus III the Great, king of Syria,
during the reign of Euthydemus, king of Bactria (pp. 396-97).
Yavana princes of the house of Euthydemus.
Their Indian conquests began in the reign of Euthydemus early
in the 2nd century B. C. , and were carried out by Demetrius,
son of Euthydemus, and other princes of his family (Ap-
pollodotus I and Menander) (pp. 399 ff. , 488, 490).
Their conquests in the upper Kábul valley and in N. W. India
were wrested from them by Yavana princes of the house of
Eucratides from c. 162 B. C. onwards (p. 500). Restruck
coins show the transference of certain kingdoms in these
regions from one house to the other (pp. 493, 497-98).
Subsequently the rule of the successors of Euthydemus – the
families of Appollodotus i and Menander-was confined to
kingdoms which lay to the east of the Jhelum (p. 494).
These appear to have been conquered finally and incorporated
into the Çaka empire during the reign of Azes 1 (acc. 58
B. C. ) (pp. 500, 516).
To the house of Euthydemus belonged Demetrius (sup-
posed limits of reign c. 190-160 B. C. , pp. 399, 402, Appollo-
dutus I, and Menander-all contemporary with Eucratides
(pp. 494, 497).
Appollodotus I was deprived of the kingdom of Kāpica by
Eucratides, and was succeeded in the lower Kābul valley by
Heliocles (pp. 493-94). The later princes of his family-
Apollodotus II, Dionysius, Zoilus, and Apollophanes -
ruled over kingdoms in the eastern Punjab (pp. 498-99).
Menander ruled over kingdoms (p. 497). He was probably
the leader of the Yavana incursion into the Midland Country
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184-72
(pp. 491-497). Menander and Eucratides may perhaps
have ruled at different times over Nicaea in the former
realm of Alexander': Paurava king between the Jhelum
and the Chenāb (pp. 497, 531). In Buddhist literature
Menander (Milinda) is known as king of Çākala (Siālkot)
in the former realm of Alexander's second' Paurava king
between the Chenāb and the Rāvi (pp. 495-96). The family
of Menander seems to be represented by Agathocleia who
may have been his queen, his son Strato ), and bis great-
grandson Strato II. Numismatic evidence apparently shows
that this family was dispossessed finally of the kingdom of
Nicaea by Heliocles in the reign of Strato I. Its rule in the
eastern Punjab continued until the Çaka conquest in the
reign of Azes I (pp. 499-500).
Hippostratus probably belonged to the house of Euthydemus,
but his family is uncertain. He was contemporary with
Azes 1 (pp. 500, 516).
The Çunga Dynasty.
The dates depend on the statements of the Purāṇas (p. 467).
Pushyamitra (184-148 6. c. ), originally king of Vidica and com-
mander-in-chief of the last Maurya emperor, seized the
Maurya dominions and reigned at Pāțaliputra (pp. 466-67).
Deprived of the kingdom of Çākala by the Yavanas (probably
by Menander) (p. 467).
War between Vidiçā, now governed by his son Agnimitra as vice-
roy, and Vidarbha (assumed date c. 170 B. C. ) (pp. 468, 544).
Defeat of the Yavanas on the banks of the Sindhu by his
grandson Vasumitra (p. 469).
Invasion of his capital, Pāțaliputra, by the Yavanas (probably
under Menander) (pp. 491, 497).
Deprived of the kingdom of Avanti (Ujjayini) by the Andhra
king Çatakarni (pp. 478-79).
Later 'Cunga kings :- Agnimitra (p. 469); Vasumitra or
Sumitra (p. 469) ; Odraka, probably contemporary with
Bahasatimitra, king of Kauçāmbi (pp. 469, 473) ; Bhāga or
Bhāgavata, contemporary with Antialcidas, the Yavana king
of Takshaçilā, c. 90 B. C. according to the Purāņas (pp.
469-70, 503) ; Devabhūiti (p. 470).
Feudatories of the Çungas at Bhārhut, Mathurā, Kauçāmbi,
and Ahicchatra (pp. 471-74).
Mithradates I, king of Parthia.
The Yueh-chi defeated by the Huns began their migration west-
wards (p. 510)
Yavana princes of the house of Eucratides.
Eucratides deposed Euthydemus from the throne of Bactria
c. 175 B. C. (p. 401).
Conquered the Kābul valley, Ariāna (Arachosia and Aria), and
N. W. India before 162 B. C. (pp. 402, 500).
Evidence of his rule in Kāpiça as successor of Apollodotus
1 (p. 501) in Takshaçilā (p. 501), and possibly in Nicaea
(ibid).
Deprived of his conquests in Ariāna by Mithradates I between
162 and 155 B. C. , the assumed date of his death (pp.
411, 500)
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B. C.
Heliocles, probably the son of Eucratides and his successor in
both Bactria and India, ended his rule in Bactria c. 135 B. O.
(pp. 413-14, 502).
Evidence of his rule in the upper Kābul valley and in Push-
kalāvati (p. 502),
Extended the conquests of Eucratides probably to the east of
the Jhelum in the reign of Strato 1 (p. 499).
Antialcidas, a member of the house of Eucratides and one
of his successors in the Kābul valley (p. 503).
He
may
have been the son and immediate successor of
Heliocles (pp. 414, 504) ; on this assumption his accession
may be conjecturally dated 120 B. c. (p. 470).
Evidence of his rule in Takshaçilā (p. 503); in this kingdom
he was at one time associated with Lysias, whose family is
uncertain (p. 505).
As king of Takshaçilā he was contemporary with the Çurga
king of Vidiçā, Bhāga or Bhāgavata Bhāgabhadra, whose
14th year may be estimated from the Purāņas as c. 90 B. C.
(pp. 469-70, 504).
Later princes of this house :-(1) In Pushkalavati after the
reign of Heliocles-Diomedes, Epander, Philoxenus, Arte-
midorus, and Peucolaus (p. 502); (2) in Takshaçilā after
the reign of Antialcidas - Archebius (p. 505); and (3) in the
upper Kābul valley after the reign of Antialcidas-Amyntas
and Hermaeus (at one time associated with Calliope) (p.
505). The date c. 25 B. C. for the end of the reign of
Hermaeus is conjectural : it seems consonant with the view
that the upper Kābul valley was conquered in or before the
reign of the Pahlava suzerain Spalirises, the brother of
Vonones (pp. 506-7, 517-18).
138-128 Phraates II, king of Parthia.
His conflicts with the Scythians (Çakas) in eastern Irān
(p. 511).
135 Bactria overwhelmed by the Çaka invasion in the reign of the
last Yavana king Heliocles (p. 414).
128_123 Artabanus I, king of Parthia.
The struggle with the Çakas was continued in his reign
(p. 512).
126 The Chinese ambassador Chang-kien visited the Yueh. chi who
were still to the north of the Oxus. The Yueh-chi expelled
the Çakas from Bactria soon afterwards (pp. 412, 511).
123-88 Mithradates II the Great, king of Parthia.