The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c26.44

v1.c26.44

Where Ctesias described the people of India as 'very just' (δικαιότατοι), we may see the reflexion of a common Greek belief that a people of ideal goodness lived somewhere at the extremities of the earth, or in this case we may perhaps gather the impression made upon strangers by a social system so firmly governed in its complex structure and the working of its parts by traditional law.