The Classical Accounts of India
The Greek and Latin writers on India in English (McCrindle's translations revised) — Herodotus, Ctesias, Megasthenes, Arrian, Strabo, the Periplus, Pliny, Ptolemy, the Alexander historians — with Majumdar's notes and supplements.
- Language
- English
- Author
- R. C. Majumdar
- Extent
- 1,886 passages, 202,599 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Calcutta: Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay 1960; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and sections by… · In copyright (R. C. Majumdar †1980); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 12 parts
- c2 Preface — 5 parts
- c3 Table of Contents — 1 part
- c4 Maps — 1 part
- c5 Abbreviation — 15 parts
- c6 Introduction — 7 parts
- c7 I. Herodotus — 20 parts
- c8 II. Invasion of India by Alexander the Great — 6 parts
- c9 Chapter LXVII — 5 parts
- c10 III. Indica by Arrian — 2 parts
- c11 IV. Diodorus Siculus — 2 parts
- c12 V. The Geography of Strabo — 3 parts
- c13 VI. Periplus Maris Erythraei — 127 parts
- c14 VII. The Voyage of Nearchus in the Erythraean Sea — 34 parts
- c15 VIII. Pliny — 6 parts
- c16 IX. Ptolemy — 4 parts
- c17 X. Apollonius of Tyana — 5 parts
- c18 XI. Aelian — 27 parts
- c19 XII. Dionysios Periegetes — 8 parts
- c20 XIII. Accounts of the Brahmanas and Sramanas — 7 parts
- c21 XIV. Miscellaneous Notices — 18 parts
- c22 Appendix I. Megasthenes — 2 parts
- c23 Appendix II. Indian Embassy to Augustus — 31 parts
- c24 Appendix III. Arrian's Indika — 3 parts
- c25 Index — 144 parts