Ancient India- As Described in Classical Literature
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Publisher: NEW BHARATIYA BOOK CORPORATION |
| Author Translated By John W. McCrindle | |
| Language: English | |
| Pages: 310 | |
| Cover: HARDCOVER | |
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9x6 inch |
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Weight 520 gm |
| Edition: 2026 | |
| ISBN: 9788183155526 | |
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HCF513 |
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This is the sixth and last volume of a series of works designed to contain annotated translations of all the texts in Greek and Latin literature which relate to ancient India. The five already published are:-
The Indika of Ktesias the Knidian.
The Indika of Megasthenes and Arrian.
The Commerce and Navigation of the Erythraean Sea.
Ptolemyis Geography of India.
The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great.
Such other texts as have not been included in these volumes are given here. They have been extracted from numerous sources, such as the Histories of Herodotus, Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, and Dion Cassius; the Geographies of Strabo and Dionysius Periegetes; the Natural History of Pliny, the Christian Topography of Kosmas Indikopleustes, the Life of Apollonius of Tyana by Philostratus; the Romance History of Alexander; and Notices in Aelian, Nonnus, Porphyry, Stobaeus, Dion Chrysostom, Eusebius, and others.
Though the extracts have not been arranged in their order of sequence in accordance with any fixed principle, as that of their chronology, yet some of them have been placed side by side as treating in the main of the same subjects, namely Brahmanism and Buddhism.
Since I entered on the undertaking thus, after an interval of three-and-twenty years, brought to completion, Indian Archeology has advanced apace, and some of its discoveries have enabled me to correct, in later volumes, what proved to have been errors in the earlier.
To nearly all the extracts will be found prefixed a brief notice of the life of the author.
With regard to the variation in the spelling of proper names according as the translation in which they occur is from a Greek or a Latin text, I must express my hope that it may not occasion any inconvenience to the reader. In the Greek form the letter k takes the place of c, ai of ae, and or of us.
In conclusion, I must express the gratification and encouragement which I derived from the very favourable notices accorded to each volume of the series as it appeared, alike from the Home, the Continental, and the Indian press.
This is the sixth and last volume of a series of works, which, in accordance with the original design announced in the first volume which appeared in 1877, contains annotated translations of all the Greek and Roman Classics which throw any light upon the distant past of India.
The volumes already published are:-
I. Ancient India as described by Megasthenes and Arrian. Calcutta, 1877. This volume includes the fragments of the Indika of Megasthenes collected by Dr. Schwanbeck of Bonn, and the first part of the Indika of Arrian, in which that careful writer supplies a general account of India derived from the best authorities.
II. The Commerce and Navigation of the Erythraan Sea. Calcutta, 1879. This volume contains a translation (with commentary) of the Periplus Erythrai Maris by an unknown. writer of the first Christian century, and of the second part of the Indika of Arrian, in which is described the memorable voyage of Nearchos from the mouth of the Indus to the head of the Persian Gulf.
III. Ancient India as described by Ktesias the Knidian. Calcutta, 1882. Ktesias was the first writer who gave the Greeks a special treatise on India. The work is lost, but we have an epitome of its contents by Photios, and fragments of it in other writers.
IV. Ancient India as described by Ptolemy. Calcutta, 1885. This volume contains not only Ptolemyis Geography of India, but also his Geography of Central and Eastern Asia, and a copy of his Map of India.
V. The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great. First edition, Westminster, 1893. New edition, 1896. This work contains translations of the accounts of Alexander's campaigns in India and Afghanistan found in Arrian, Q. Curtius, Diodorus Siculus, Plutarch, and Justinus. The Introduction contains a sketch of the History of Alexander, and the Preface to the new edition brings the work up to date.
The present volume, which completes the series, contains translations of all the remaining accounts of India which occur in the Classics, and which are all either extracts from larger works, or merely incidental notices.
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