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Dionysius was a Greek of the 3rd century BCE, who was sent as ambassador to the court of the Indian emperor Ashoka
Ashoka

Ashoka was an Indian emperor, of the Maurya Empire who ruled from 273 BCE to 232 BCE. Often cited as one of India's as well as world's greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over most of present-day India after a number of military conquests....
, by Ptolemy Philadelphus.

He was preceded in this role by Megasthenes
Megasthenes

Megasthenes was a Ancient Greece traveller and geographer. He was born in Asia Minor and became an ambassador of Seleucus I of Syria to the court of Sandrocottus of India, in Pataliputra....
, ambassador to Chandragupta Maurya
Chandragupta Maurya

Chandragupta Maurya , sometimes known simply as Chandragupta , was the founder of the Maurya Empire. Chandragupta succeeded in bringing together most of the Indian subcontinent....
, and Deimachus, ambassador to his son, and father of Ashoka, Bindusara
Bindusara

Bindusara was the second Mauryan dynasty emperor after Chandragupta Maurya. During his reign, the empire expanded southwards. He had two sons, Sumana and Ashoka ,who were the viceroys of Taxila and Ujjain.The Greeks called him Amitrochates or Allitrochades - the Greek transliteration for the Sanskrit 'Amitraghata' ....
.

Dionysius is mentioned in a passage of Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient author, naturalist or natural philosopher and naval and military commander of some importance who wrote Natural History ....
:
"But [India] has been treated of by several other Greek writers who resided at the courts of Indian kings, such, for instance, as Megasthenes, and by Dionysius, who was sent thither by Philadelphus, expressly for the purpose: all of whom have enlarged upon the power and vast resources of these nations." Pliny the Elder, "The Natural History", Chap.






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Dionysius was a Greek of the 3rd century BCE, who was sent as ambassador to the court of the Indian emperor Ashoka
Ashoka

Ashoka was an Indian emperor, of the Maurya Empire who ruled from 273 BCE to 232 BCE. Often cited as one of India's as well as world's greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over most of present-day India after a number of military conquests....
, by Ptolemy Philadelphus.

He was preceded in this role by Megasthenes
Megasthenes

Megasthenes was a Ancient Greece traveller and geographer. He was born in Asia Minor and became an ambassador of Seleucus I of Syria to the court of Sandrocottus of India, in Pataliputra....
, ambassador to Chandragupta Maurya
Chandragupta Maurya

Chandragupta Maurya , sometimes known simply as Chandragupta , was the founder of the Maurya Empire. Chandragupta succeeded in bringing together most of the Indian subcontinent....
, and Deimachus, ambassador to his son, and father of Ashoka, Bindusara
Bindusara

Bindusara was the second Mauryan dynasty emperor after Chandragupta Maurya. During his reign, the empire expanded southwards. He had two sons, Sumana and Ashoka ,who were the viceroys of Taxila and Ujjain.The Greeks called him Amitrochates or Allitrochades - the Greek transliteration for the Sanskrit 'Amitraghata' ....
.

Dionysius is mentioned in a passage of Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient author, naturalist or natural philosopher and naval and military commander of some importance who wrote Natural History ....
:
"But [India] has been treated of by several other Greek writers who resided at the courts of Indian kings, such, for instance, as Megasthenes, and by Dionysius, who was sent thither by Philadelphus, expressly for the purpose: all of whom have enlarged upon the power and vast resources of these nations." Pliny the Elder, "The Natural History", Chap. 21