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The Seventeenth Book of Diodorus: in Two Parts
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He questioned Phegeus about the country beyond the Indus River,1 and learned that there was a
desert to traverse for twelve days, and then the river called Ganges, which was thirty-two
furlongs in width2 and the
deepest of all the Indian rivers. Beyond this in turn dwelt the peoples of the Tabraesians and
the Gandaridae, whose king was Xandrames. He had twenty thousand cavalry, two hundred thousand
infantry, two thousand chariots, and four thousand elephants equipped for war.3 Alexander doubted this
information and sent for Porus, and asked him what was the truth of these reports.
1 The river (the Beas) has just been called the Hyphasis, and editors have tended to remove the term "Indus" here.
2 The same figure is given by Plut. Alexander 62.1. In Book 2.37.2, in a description based probably on Megasthenes, Diodorus gives the width of the river as thirty furlongs.
3 Plut. Alexander 62.2, gives the reported figures as follows: 80,000 horse, 200,000 foot, 8000 chariots, and 6000 elephants. In Book 2.37.3 also Diodorus gives the number of elephants as 4000.
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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