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While rulers fought for control of the Ganga valley, new invaders appeared at India’s frontiers; Cyrus, Emperor of Persia, crossed the Hindu Kush mountains into the Indus valley in 530 b.c.
They include Clients Consulting a Sorceress and Strolling Musicians, vivid little friezes of an octopus, a cat catching a quail, and the huge exciting mural of Alexander driving Darius of Persia from the battlefield at Issus in 333 b.c.
Sweeping through the Punjab and Gujarat across to the western end of the Ganga valley, Mahmud of Ghazni (997–1030) used these raids more to finance his empire in Persia and Turkistan than to set up a permanent foothold in India.
The Sikhs reacted violently to persecution, and the Marathas spread to Orissa, after which, in the year 1739, Nadir Shah of Persia invaded and carried off the Peacock Throne (broken up after his assassination).
His heir, Humayun, preferred opium and astrology to complex State affairs; he was driven out of India into Persia by General Sher Shah, who proved to be a much more able ruler.