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Sandrakottos is identical with Candragupta and not with Asoka, as the literary analogy
Sandrakottos), shows evidently. The form sanCandragupta,
dracottos goes back to a prâkrit form, the more as there exists also a Greek form Sandrakyptos, but the reading is not warranted by Manuscripts, as it seems, in Athenaios I. 18. Alexander and Candragupta are believed contemporaries as far as according to Plutarch, Candragupta is said to have seen, when he was a boy, the great king Alexander. But also that is not historically proved. Sandrakottos has no meaning at all in Greek, as it represents only Indian word Candragupta, which means protected by the moon. " On Nandrum in Justin, there is little doubt, rather none, that it means Nanda, the king and his dynasty, which was over-whelmed and deposed by Candragupta, with the help of a Brahman, called Vishnugupta or Canakya or Kautilya. That is not proved. Nandrum is the correct reading, Alexandram a misreading, as it is out of place in that passage of Instin
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Dr. Otto Stein.
* From a letter dated 11th February 1936 to the author.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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