"Heracles... who is currently reported to have come as a stranger into the country is said to have been in reality a native of India. This Heracles is held in especial honour by the Sourasenoi, an Indian tribe who possess two large cities, Methora and Cleisobora, and through whose country flows a navigable river called the Jobares. But the dress which this Heracles wore, Megasthenes tells us, resembled that of the Thracian Heracles, as the Indians themselves admit. It is further said that he had a numerous progeny of male children born to him in India (for, like his Theban namesake, he married many wives) but that he had only one daughter. The name of this child was Pāndaia, and the land in which she was born and with the sovereignty of which Heracles entrusted her was called after her name Pāndaia."
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Arrian (Indica, I. viii.) , quoted in K. D. Sethna, Ancient India in a New Light, 1990
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Lucius Flavius Arrianus 'Xenophon' (c. 86/89–c. after 146/160 CE), known in English as Arrian, was a Greek historian and philosopher.
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