Ancient India as described by Megasthenês and Arrian / being a translation of the fragments of the Indika of Megasthenês collected by Dr. Schwanbeck, and of the first part of the Indika of Arrian, by J.W. McCrindle ; with introduction, notes, and map of ancient India.

  • Megasthenes
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1877
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Credit: Ancient India as described by Megasthenês and Arrian / being a translation of the fragments of the Indika of Megasthenês collected by Dr. Schwanbeck, and of the first part of the Indika of Arrian, by J.W. McCrindle ; with introduction, notes, and map of ancient India. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    also decide cases in which foreigners are con- cerned, with the greatest care, and come down sharply on those who take unfair advantage of tbem0 [What we have now said regarding India and its antiquities will suffice for our pre- sent purpose,] BOOK L Fragm. II. Arr. Exped. Alex. V. 6, 2-11. Of the Boundaries of India, its General Character, and its Rivers.J According to Eratosthenes, and Megasthenes who lived with Siburtios the satrap of Arachosia, and who, as he himself tells us, often visited Sandrakottos§ the king of the Indians, India forms the largest of the four parts into wdiich Southern'Asia is divided, while the smallest part is that region which is includ- ed between the Euphrates and our own sea. The two remaining parts, which are separated from the others by the Euphrates and the Indus, and lie between these rivers, are scarcely of sufficient size to be compared with India, even should they be taken both together. The same writers say that India is bounded on its I Conf. Epit. ad init. § The name of Chandragnpta is written by the Greeks Sandrokottos, Sandrakottas, Sandrakottos, Androkottos, and (best) Sandrokuptos. Cf. Schlegel, Bibl. Ind. 1.245.— Schwanbeck, p. 12, n. 6.