The Classical Accounts of India c16.2

c16.2

The Chapters of Ptolemy's Geography relating to India supply a long list of places, many of which are otherwise unknown, and indicate their location by referring to the degrees of latitude and longitude Most of these place-names cannot be identified, for Ptolemy had a very distorted view of the shape of India and his determination of the positions of places is mostly inaccurate Nevertheless, with the help of the few places which can be definitely identified with modern localities, persistent attempts have been made by a succession of learned scholars to determine the approximate location of, and even to identify many of the other places These have, however, met with very little success, and reference has been made in the footnotes to a few reasonable hypotheses only