Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c10.38
Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c10.38
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c10.38
Dr Hultzch speaks of finding a solitary silver coin of the days of Ptolemy Soter in the Bangalore bazaar¹. The love-story, the progenitor of the modern novel, introduced to the West by Chares of Mitylene, may be perhaps considered an indirect product of Alexandrian influence, as it appears first in Alexandrian literature.