Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c15.35

c15.35

Plautus, *Mercator* 139 Pliny 5, 20, 24, 39 ff., 66, 92, 102, 104, 105, 110, 112, 115, 124, 126, 150, 152 Plutarch 77, 82, 170; *Vit. Alex.* 33, 141; *Sertorius* 99 πνευματικοί 177 Poduca (Puducheri or Pondicherry) 122 Polybius 74, 92 Pompeii 105 Poppoea 104 Porphyry 141, 142, 174 Port Said 94 Port Sudan 92 Portuguese 14 Porus (= Paurava) 36, 40, 92, 107 Poseidonius 96 Potana (= Pātala, *q.v.*) 94 Prākrit 171 Prasii, the 33 Prasii, country of the 152 Prayāga 42, 43, 51, 56, 65 Priam 140, 169 Priaulx, O. de B., *Indian Travel* 107, 140; *Indian Embassies to Rome* 107, 130, 140; *Life of Apollonius of Tyana* 140 Probus 154 Psalms, Book of 11 Pseudo-Kallisthenes 147, 148 ψυχικοί 177 Ptolemais Epitherōn (Ptolemais of the Hunts) 91, 92 Ptolemies, the 88-100 Ptolemy Auletes 100 Ptolemy Epiphanes 100 Ptolemy Euergetes I 92, 100; II 100 Ptolemy Lathyrus 97 Ptolemy Philadelphus 18, 19, 39, 48, 65, 71, 89, 90 ff., 100 Ptolemy Philometor 100 Ptolemy Philopator 94, 100 Ptolemy Soter I 100; II 94, 100 Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus), *Guide to Geography* 90, 106, 115, 130 ff. *puchuk* 124 *Pum-Savana* 61 "Punt, the land of" 10 Purāṇic legends 160 Pushyamitra 81 Pygmies (Τρισπάθιμοι) 27, 65, 66 Pyrrhus 92