According to historian John Keay, "[b]etween the death of Ashoka in 321 BC and the advent of Gupta power in 320 AD, India's ancient history plummets again toa murky obscurity.' There were too many kings, and many were foreigners from Bactria, Pathia and the wilderness of Turkestan, who also struck deep into the Gangetic heartland of India.
(India. A History: From the Earliest Civilizations to the Boom of the Twenty-First Century (London: Harper Press, 2010). In this work, this half a millennium occupies only 28 pages, out of 605.)
India in Context:
The parinirvana of Buddha nearly four-five hundred years in the past (the date is uncertain).
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