The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c26.13

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And yet in order to estimate this information truly one must bear in mind some limiting considerations. The motive of intellectual curiosity just described, the critical scientific temper, up in their own ears (*Ōtoliknoi* or *Enōtokoitoi*), of people with one eye, and so on, with which the Greek tradition about India thus started and which it retained to the end¹. These stories, it is now recognised, correspond with statements in the old Indian books about peoples on the confines of the Indian world, and Scylax may therefore very well have really heard them from Indians and accepted them in simple faith.