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Meghasthenes came to India in 302 BC as an ambassador of Selecos Nikator, the representative in India of the Greek prince Alexander. He took up office in the court of King Chandragupta Maurya at the capital Pataliputra that he called Palibothara. His work Indica is recognised as the first dated account of the era. He has described in great detail the land, the people, their nature and lifestyle, the weather, the monsoon and simplicity of the soil. He prasies the honesty and simplicity of Indians, their eye for beauty and respect for wisdom. But some of the storis and descripitions in Indica are fantastic; others down right unbelievable. He writes of ants the size of foxes that dig with black faces; larger than the largest dogs and of snakes with membranous wings that fly at night. He describes a river that he calles Sillas. which flows from a fountain and on whose waters, nothing will float.

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Megasthenes, (born c. 350 bc—died c. 290), ancient Greek historian and diplomat, author of an account of India, the Indica, in four books. An Ionian, he was sent by the Hellenistic king Seleucus I on embassies to the Mauryan emperor Chandragupta.

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