Dandamis

thumb|Routes taken by the Macedonian army into the Indus Valley Dandamis (presumably Greek rendering of "Dandayan-Svami") was a philosopher, swami and gymnosophist whom Alexander encountered in the woods near Taxila, when he invaded India in 4th century B.C. He is also referred to as Mandanes. He was guru of Kalanos, the noted gymnosophist, who accompanied Alexander to Persis. Quotes "You," said the Brahmin Mandanis to the King (Alexander the Great), "are the only man whom I ever found curious in the investigation of philosophy at the head of an army." Strabo, as quoted in R. W. Emerson, journal entry (18 March 1868); E. W. Emerson and W. E. Forbes, eds., Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 10 (1914), p. 235 External links