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Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c4.12

Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c4.12

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c4.12

Still earlier conquests by Semiramis and Sesostris[^3) are mentioned, but the former is certainly mythical[^4), and the latter rests on the assertion of Diodorus Siculus alone. As his statement is not, as yet, corroborated by Egyptian monuments, little weight can be attached to it, but that the Egyptians traded with India, and that from very early times can hardly be doubted.