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it is most likely that he escaped because he would have been enslaved.
The most feasible way of escape from Ecbatana was to the east along the line subsequently followed by Alexander.
This would certainly have carried him to Aria where he would already have been within range of Indian influence.
He must then have gone on but his route seems doubtful.
Some hypothesis like this is almost necessitated by the Indian features of the Pythagorean phlosophy which have been brought out by L. von Schroeder.
Besides Clemens and several other high authorities directly assert that he learned of the Brahmans.
Now they were in no condition to know that his philosophy showed this; so there must have been positive testimony to that effect.
Cicero and others says that he visited the Persian mage.
But it does not follow that he ever was in Persia.
I do not believe he was.
Cyrus being a Persian may very well have had magi in Media.
The testimony that he was instructed by the