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Megasthenes
Megasthenes
( ; , ca. 350 – 290 BC) was a
Greek
ethnographer
and explorer in the
Hellenistic period
, author of the work
Indika
. He was born in
Asia Minor
(modern-day Turkey) and became an ambassador of
Seleucus I
of the
Seleucid dynasty
possibly to
Chandragupta Maurya
in
Pataliputra
,
India
. However the exact date of his embassy is uncertain. Scholars place it before 298 BC, the date of Chandragupta's death.
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