[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Latin](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la) › [Late Antiquity (300 – 700)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.late) › [Isidore of Seville](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.late.isidore) › Etymologies # Etymologies (Etymologiae) The medieval encyclopaedia's India: gymnosophists (8.6.17); Indians named after the Indus, the Gangaridae (9.2.39–41); dog-headed men, Cyclopes, Macrobii and Pygmies of India (11.3.15–16, 26–27); elephants, tigers and Indian dogs (12.2.14–16, 28); the parrot (12.7.24); Ganges and Indus (13.21.8–11); India, its rivers, harvests, gems, beasts and monsters (14.3.5–7); Chryse, Argyre, Taprobane, Tiles (14.6.11–13); Nysa (15.1.6); magnet, adamas and Indian gems (16); ebony, pepper, aloe, cinnamon and other Indian plants (17.7–9); indigo (19.17.16). - **Language:** Latin - **Date:** 615–636 CE - **Author:** [Isidorus Hispalensis](https://indike.org/pramana/person/isidore) - **Text:** not yet digitised (catalogue entry) ## Translations (1) - [An Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages (selections)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.late.isidore.etymologiae~en-brehaut) — English, not yet digitised --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.late.isidore.etymologiae](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.late.isidore.etymologiae) · Pramāṇa