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# The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.26

The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.26

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### [c5.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.26)

415 Ktēsias, a Greek physician of Knidos; for seventeen years at the court of Persia under Dareios II and Artaxerxēs Mnēmōn, returning to his own country about B.C. 398. Author of the Indika, the earliest Greek work on India. The original is lost, but an abridgment of it by Phōtios still exists, and fragments of it are preserved in the works of other writers.—LIA. ii, 641 ff. McCrindle, Anc. India, as described by Ktēsias the Knidian.

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## Linked texts (1)

- [Ἰνδική](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.roman.arrian.indica) — Λούκιος Φλάουιος Ἀρριανός, Ancient Greek

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