Sophagasenus
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Indian English Template:Infobox royalty Sophagasenos, also spelt Sophagasenus or Sophagasenas[1] (Sanskrit: Subhagasena), was a local Indian king ruling in Kabul and Kapisa valley (Paropamisadae of the classical writings) during the last decades of 3rd century BCE. Sophagasenus finds reference only in "The Histories" of Polybius.
Names
Sophagasenus is probably derived from the name Shubhagasena.Template:Sfn
Polybius on Sophagasenus
Polybius (Template:Circa), the Greek historian, makes reference to Sophagasenus in context with Antiochus III's expedition across the Caucasus Indicus (Hindu Kush) in around 206 BCE. Having crossed the Caucasus Mountains, Antiochus moved up to Kabul and met Sophagasenus the Indian king with whom he renewed league and friendship he had made previously.[2] and received more elephants until he had one hundred and fifty of them all together. He then returned home via Arachosia, Drangiana and Karmania.[3][Note 1] No other source except Polybius makes any reference to Sophagasenus.
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- ↑ Political History of Ancient India, 1996, p 322, Dr H. C. Raychaudhury, Dr B. N. Mukerjee
- ↑ Ref: Polybius, XI.34.11-12
- ↑ The Histories of Polybius, Book 11, 1889, p 78, by Friedrich Otto Hultsch, Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh
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