Sennacherib : king of Assyria (704-681 BC), he rebuilt the Assyrian capital, Nineveh.
... the marble floor at his feet are strewn like flowers the images of the same stars that shone on the pride of Nahusha, the tapasya of Dhruv and the splendours of Yayati, that saw Tiglath-Pileser, Sennacherib and the Egyptian Pharaohs, Pompey's head hewn off on the sands of Egypt and Caesar bleeding at Pompey's sculptured feet, Napoleon's mighty legions thundering victorious at the bidding of that god ...
... still earlier Medes we get two bits of information proving Assyria and India to have been in touch. Jairazbhoy 1 writes: "The cotton tree was introduced from India into Assyria (c. 700 B.C.) by Sennacherib (704-681 B.C.), who is reported to have said that trees that bear fleeces were sheared and shredded for garments... The earliest date [for the Indian peacock's arrival in Assyria] may be 738 B.C ...
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