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# De civitate Dei

Augustine, The City of God

Indians among the nations with wise men (8.9); Porphyry's search for a universal way of liberation, not found 'among the customs and discipline of the Indians' (10.32); the gymnosophists who philosophise naked in the forests of India (14.17) and abstain from procreation (15.20); Ninus ruled all Asia except India (16.17, 18.2, 18.22); Liber's war in India (18.13); Indian stones and the island Tylos (21.4–5).

- **Language:** Latin
- **Date:** 413–426 CE
- **Author:** [Aurelius Augustinus](https://indike.org/pramana/person/augustine)
- **Text:** not yet digitised (catalogue entry)

## Translations (1)

- [The City of God](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.late.augustine~en-dods) — English, not yet digitised

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