[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Classical Accounts of India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.majumdar-1960) › c19.1 # The Classical Accounts of India c19.1 The Classical Accounts of India c19.1 - **Language:** English ### [c19.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.majumdar-1960.c19.1) Dionysios is distinguished from a host of writers of the same name by the surname of Periegetes from his authorship of a work in hexameter verse which contains a \*Description of the whole world\* Nothing is known for certain either of the age or the country of this Dionysios, but he probably wrote towards the end of the third century A D. His poem became so popular that it was translated into Latin verse and used as a schoolbook for teaching geography The original consists of 1187 lines, of which 85 are devoted to the description of India and its conquest by Bacchus The work is one of considerable poetic merit The following extracts are based upon the English Translation of McCrindle (M V, 187-90) - [Previous: c18.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.majumdar-1960.c18.28) - [Next: c19.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.majumdar-1960.c19.2) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.majumdar-1960.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.majumdar-1960.c19.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.majumdar-1960.c19.1) · Pramāṇa