High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sasigupta (Arrian Sisikottos; Curtius Sisocostus) was an historical personage of considerable eminence hailing from the Paropamisadean region i.e. region lying between Hindukush and Indus. His name appears twice in Arrian's Anabasis and once in Historiae Alexendri Magni by Curtius. The name Sasigupta literally means "moon-protected"---the "Sasi" part of the name being equivalent to Chandra or the moon. Though many scholars write that Sasigupta was a ruler of some frontier hill state south of Hindukush, it is however, more appropriate to call him a military adventurer or a corporation leader coming from the warlike background of the fierce Ksatriya clan of the Asvakas from Massaga or Aornos or some other adjacent territory of the Asvakas. No ancient evidence is available which attests Sasigupta's royal back ground prior to his appointment by Alexander as ruler of the Asvakas of the Aornos country. Scholars are also at variance on the identity...

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