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'''Dandamis''' (presumably Greek rendering of "Dandi-[[Swami|Svami]]")<ref>{{cite book|title=Ancient Indian History and Civilization By Sailendra Nath Sen|year=1999|pages=128|isbn=9788122411980|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wk4_ICH_g1EC&q=dandamis+dandi&pg=PA128|last1=Sen|first1=Sailendra Nath}}</ref> was a philosopher, [[swami]] and a [[gymnosophist]], whom [[Alexander the Great|Alexander]] encountered in the woods near [[Taxila]], when he invaded India in 4th century B.C. He is also referred to as '''Mandanes'''.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Sháhnáma of Firdausí By Arthur George Warner, Edmond Warner|year=2001|pages=61–62, 422, 430|isbn=9780415245432|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CixkKv_ywoMC&q=dandamis|last1=Warner|first1=Arthur George|last2=Warner|first2=Edmond}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
When Alexander met some gymnosophists, who were of trouble to him. He came to know that their leader was Dandamis, who lived in jungle, lying naked on leaves, near a water spring.<ref>[http://books.google.co.in/books?id=BZIPAQAAIAAJ&q=dandamis+alexander&dq=dandamis+alexander&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FAFoT9-cK9HRrQey6f2QCA&ved=0CGYQ6AEwCQ Prabudhha Bharata by Vivekannda Swami, page 30 & 386]</ref><br />
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He then sent [[Onesicritus|Onescratus]] to bring Dandamis to him. When Onescratus encountered Dandamis in forest, he gave him the message, that ''Alexander, the Great son of [[Zeus]], has ordered him to come to him. He will give you gold and other rewards but if you refuse, he may behead you.'' When Dandamis heard that, he did not even raise his head and replied lying in his bed of leaves. ''God the Great King, is not a source of violence but provider of water, food, light and life. Your king cannot be a God, who loves violence and who is mortal.<ref name=a/><ref>{{cite book|title=Philo on Jewish identity and culture By Maren Niehoff|year=2001|pages=154|isbn=9783161476112|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cOjCkfLCt3sC&q=dandamis+|last1=Niehoff|first1=Maren}}</ref> Even if you take away my head, you cannot take away my soul, which will depart to my God and leave this body like we throw away old garment. We, brahman do not love gold nor fear death. So your king has nothing to offer, which I may need. Go and tell your King : Dandamis, therefore, will not come to you. If he needs Dandamis, he must come to me''<ref name=a>{{cite book|title=The Legends of Alexander the Great By Richard Stoneman|year=2012|pages=43–47|isbn=9781848857858|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W8gMKhTO5ZAC&q=dandamis+alexander&pg=PA44|last1=Stoneman|first1=Richard}}</ref><br />
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When Alexander, came to know what Dandamis' reply, he went to forest to meet Dandamis. Alexander sat before him in forest for more than an hour. When Dandamis asked him, why he has come to him because - ''I have nothing to offer you. Because we have no thought of pleasure or gold, we love God and despise death, whereas you love pleasure, gold and kill people, you fear death and despise God.''<ref name=a/> Alexander, informed that ''I heard your name from [[Calanus of India|Calanus]] and have come to learn wisdom from you''<ref name=a/> The conversation that followed between them is recorded by Greeks as ''Alexander-Dandamis colloquy''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Classica et mediaevalia , Volumes 34-35|year=1983|publisher=Société danoise les études anciennes et médiévales|pages=78, 81, 87|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MZcmAQAAIAAJ&q=dandamis+alexander}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[King Porus]]<br />
*[[Hinduism]]<br />
*[[Ambhi]]<br />
*[[Darius III]]<br />
*[[Spirituality]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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