Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

126 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
and everything which was in his royal palace, the
Alexander gold, and precious stones, and the rich and costly
bmes po- ^pp^j-gi^ ^j^(j Y[Q (-qqJ^ everything which was in the
country of the Indians, both of riches and arms.
Then Alexander commanded them to wash Porus,
and they brought him a beautiful bier for him, and
they washed him in musk and in rose water, and
they made him ready for the grave, and buried
him in a place which was meet for his royal rank;
and Alexander set guards to watch his tomb even
as he did for Darius, the king. And Alexander
appointed the nobles and chiefs of the Indians to
rule over them, and he marched away from them,
[p. 71] having brought them into subjection unto
him and havinsf included them in his kingfdom.
Then Alexander desired to see the country of the
Alexander Brahmans—now they are those whom Zosimas' the
Brahmans. ascBtlc mentioned— when he heard the fame of
their wisdom and knowledge which [had spread]
in the world, and how they forsake the lusts ^ of
the flesh.
Now^ when the Brahmans heard that Alexander
' It is probable that our author refers to the famous
monk of whom Rosweyde {Vitae Patrum, p. 3S2) writes:
"In monasterio Palaestinorum fuit vir vitae moribus et verbo
ornatus, qui ab ipsis cunabulis, monachicis est actibus dili-
genter instructus, et conversationibus veraciter educatus no-
mine Zosimas." His date is unknown.
" Read ^ThflJ-l' '•
3 See Pseudo-Callisthenes, lik. iii, chap. 5 (see Mullerj
p. 99j Meusel, p. 772).