Megas'thenes, a Greek ambassador stationed by Seleucus Nicator (306-298 B.C.) at the court of Sandrocottus (q.v.), or Chandra Gupta, in the valley of the Ganges. Here he gathered materials for his work Indica, from which Arrian, Strabo, and others borrowed. The fragments that remain have been edited by Schwanebeck (1846) and Müller (1848).
Megas'thenes
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 122
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