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come to take from us our water and other necessaries of life,- the only things that reasonable men will take up arms for ? As to gold and silver and other possessions, if I am richer than you, I am willing to oblige you with part; if I am poorer, I have no objection to sharing in your
bounty". Now, this attitude of the king of Taxila avoided the catastrophic war between him and Alexander. Was this attitude due to any poverty and consequent want of resources for war, in Taxilā ? No,
" It is said the dominions of Taxila in India”, says Plutarch, "were as large as Egypt; they afforded excellent pasturage
too and were the most fertile in all respects". Was the King of Taxilā, a moral wreck ? No. He is recorded to have been not only a very prudent nian but to have had great influence over the saints of India, which was impossible for a coward and a weak prince. A great Indiau saint whom the Greeks called Calanus, was bold enough to treat Onesioritus, a disciple of Diogenes, who was deputed by Alexander to ask him to oome to him, “with great insolence and harshness,
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