Pyrrhon of Elis, a Greek philosopher who traveled with Alexander to India, spent months or possibly years in Northwest India and the city of Taxila in Pakistan where he met Indian ascetics described as 'gymnos sists' or 'naked wise men,' interaction that likely influenced his development of skeptical philosophy

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Piro himself spent months and possibly years in Northwest India as well as the city of taxila in Pakistan and according to the Greek biographer diogenes larus it was here that he met with the gymnos sists of India the so-called naked wise men and this led him to adopt a most noble philosophy

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