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... Gupta with Sandracottus ? What late discoveries have tended to confirm or disprove it ? ..... .................. ............ 35 35 35 35 4. What Mahomedan Sovereign , after Sultan Mahmud , made SCHOLARSHIP QUESTIONS . 7.
... Gupta with Sandracottus ? What late discoveries have tended to confirm or disprove it ? ..... .................. ............ 35 35 35 35 4. What Mahomedan Sovereign , after Sultan Mahmud , made SCHOLARSHIP QUESTIONS . 7.
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... Sandracottus , who was the king of Magada in his time . 4. The second great conqueror of India after Sultan Mahomed was Shaabudin Ghori , commonly known by the name of Mahomed Ghori . He first led an expedition into India , in the year ...
... Sandracottus , who was the king of Magada in his time . 4. The second great conqueror of India after Sultan Mahomed was Shaabudin Ghori , commonly known by the name of Mahomed Ghori . He first led an expedition into India , in the year ...
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... Sandracottus , what date may be assigned to the war of the Maha Bharat ? What is the pro- bable age of Menu and the Vedas ? 6. What are the prominent claims to originality in Hindu Science , especially in Algebra and Astronomy , and the ...
... Sandracottus , what date may be assigned to the war of the Maha Bharat ? What is the pro- bable age of Menu and the Vedas ? 6. What are the prominent claims to originality in Hindu Science , especially in Algebra and Astronomy , and the ...
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... Sandra- cottus be the same person , we have by counting 25 years for the average length of each reign the date of Maha Bharut to be 900 years before the reign of Sandracottus , whose date is again fixed in the accounts of the Greeks ...
... Sandra- cottus be the same person , we have by counting 25 years for the average length of each reign the date of Maha Bharut to be 900 years before the reign of Sandracottus , whose date is again fixed in the accounts of the Greeks ...
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