[MD] Uncertainty

[Sharath]

Ron,
Oh really! You said reign over India..the dictionary meaning is pretty
much the same and I can bet you don't even know what India looks like
in a map.

Anyway, like I said nearly 200 years apart and 10years of conquest of
1/10 of India do you seriously think Greeks influenced Buddhist
philosophy ?
get a grip.

And often it helps read some history before posting lies about other
cultures and peoples.
-Sharath



On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:18 PM, X Acto<xacto at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> Sharath,
> I never said Alexander ruled India, I said Alexander, who invaded India,
> a student of Aristotle , INFLUENCED buddhist philosophy.
>
> I did'nt say CREATED buddhism.
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> often
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> it helps to read what is written
>
> before going off all pissy
>
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> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> From: X Acto <xacto at rocketmail.com>
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 3:04:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [MD] Uncertainty
>
> Sharath:
>
> "In a series of campaigns lasting 10 years, Alexander's armies repeatedly defeated the Persians
> in battle, in the process overthrowing the Persian king Darius III, and conquering the entirety
> of the Persian Empire.ii[›] Alexander then, following his desire to reach the 'ends of the world
> and the Great Outer Sea', invaded India, but was eventually forced to turn back by the near-mutiny
> of his troops."
> -wiki
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great
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>
> In the spring of 327 BC, Alexander and his army marched into India invading Punjab. The greatest of
> Alexander's battles in India was at the river Hydaspes, against king Porus, one of the most powerful
> Indian rulers. In the summer of 326 BC, Alexander's army crossed the heavily defended river during a
> violent thunderstorm to meet Porus' forces. The Indians were defeated in a fierce battle, even though
> they fought with elephants, which the Macedonians had never seen before. Porus was captured and like
> the other local rulers he had defeated, Alexander allowed him to continue to govern his territory.
> In this battle Alexander's horse Bucephalus was wounded and died. Alexander had ridden Bucephalus
> into every one of his battles in Europe and Asia, so when it died he was grief-stricken.
> He founded a city which he named Buckephalia, in his horse's name.
> The army continued advancing as far as the river Hydaspes but at this point the Macedonians
> refused to go farther as reports were coming of far more larger and dangerous armies ahead
> equipped with many elephants and chariots. General Coenus spoke on army's behalf to the king.
> Reluctantly, Alexander agreed to stop here.  Not too long afterwards Coenus died and the army
> buried him with the highest honors.
> It was agreed that the army travel down south the rivers Hydaspes and Indus so that they
> might reach the Ocean on the southern edge of the world and from there head westward toward
> Persia. 1,000 ships were constructed and while the navy sailed the rivers, the army rode
> down along the rivers banks, stopping to attack and subdue the Indian villages along the way.
>
> One of the villages in which the army stopped belonged to the Malli, who were said to be
> one of the most warlike of the Indian tribes. Alexander was severally wounded in this
> attack when an arrow pierced his breastplate and his ribcage.  The Macedonians rescued
> him in a narrow escape from the village. Still the Malli surrendered as Alexander
> became to recover from the grave wound.  The travel down the river resumed and the
> Macedonian army reached the mouth of the Indus in the summer of 325 BC. Then it
> turned westward to Persia.
>
> http://www.historyofmacedonia.org/AncientMacedonia/AlexandertheGreat.html
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Sharath <sharath.kumar79 at gmail.com>
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 2:52:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [MD] Uncertainty
>
> Ron earlier:
>> Buddhism came from India which was influenced by Greek thought during the reign of
>> Alexander.
>
> And I come from India and I'm telling you there were many countries
> who reigned over India and Alexander was not one amongst them and for
> that matter the Greeks never came close to the Maghad empire or for
> that matter south central India where the Buddhist existed. Also,
> Buddhism predated Alexander's conquest by at least a century. Buddha
> was born in 563BC and Alexander's conquest was 326BC...
> Sharath
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--Sharath



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