Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c12.31
Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c12.31
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c12.31
¹ The first Alexandrian to visit India was Skythianus a contemporary of the Apostles (*J.R.A.S.* xx. 267). Ptolemy and Dion Cassius mention Indians in Alexandria (*As. Res.* iii. 53). So does St Chrysostom, *Or.* xxxii. 373. The first Indian mention of Alexandria is in the *Gārgī Saṃhitā* (*Yavana-pura*).