“No Indian ever went outside his own country on a warlike expedition, so righteous were they.”

—  Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri

Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, Book VII : Indica, as translated by Edgar Iliff Robson (1929), p. 18

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