[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Greek](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr) › [Hellenistic (323–31 BCE)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.hellenistic) › [Ἰνδικά](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.hellenistic.megasthenes) › 4 # Ἰνδικά 4: Strabo II, p. 79 fin. Ἰνδικά 4 - **Language:** Ancient Greek ### [4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.hellenistic.megasthenes.4) Φησὶν ὁ Ἵππαρχος ἐν τῷ δευτέρῳ Ὑπομνήματι αὐτὸν τὸν Ἐρατοσθένη διαβάλλειν τὴν τοῦ Πατροκλέους πίστιν ἐκ τῆς πρὸς Μεγασθένη διαφωνίας περὶ τοῦ μήκους τῆς Ἰνδικῆς τοῦ κατὰ τὸ βόρειον πλευρὸν, τοῦ μὲν Μεγασθένους λέγοντος σταδίων μυρίων ἑξακισχιλίων, τοῦ δὲ Πατροκλέους χιλίοις λείπειν φαμένου. > \[From this, one can readily see how the accounts of the other writers vary from one another. Thus Ktesias says that India is not of less size than the rest of Asia ; Onesikritos regards it as the third part of the habitable world; and Nearchos says it takes one four months to traverse the plain only.\] Megasthenes and Deimachos incline to be more moderate in their estimate, for according to them the distance from the Southern Sea to Kaukasos is over 20,000 stadia. — \[Deimachos, however, allows that the distance in some places exceeds 30,000 stadia. Of these notice has been taken in an earlier part of the work.\] > — John Watson McCrindle 1877, Ancient India as Described by Megasthenês and Arrian - [Previous: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.hellenistic.megasthenes.3) - [Next: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.hellenistic.megasthenes.5) ## Translations (2) - [Ancient India as Described by Megasthenês and Arrian](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.hellenistic.megasthenes~en-mccrindle.6) — John Watson McCrindle 1877, English - [Latin translation (Müller)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.hellenistic.megasthenes*fhg~la-muller.4) — Karl Müller, Latin ## Discussed in (1) - [Studies in Ancient Hindu Polity (Based on the Arthaśāstra of Kauṭilya), Vol. I](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.law-1914.c9.s1.5) — Law & Mookerji 1914, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.hellenistic.megasthenes.4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.hellenistic.megasthenes.4) · Pramāṇa