Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c8.s1.11
Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c8.s1.11
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c8.s1.11
His two last statements are absolutely wide of the mark. He says it is 425 miles to Palibothra and 638 miles to the mouth of the Ganges. The distances are in reality 248 and 445 miles respectively. The latter part of the road had not been travelled by Megasthenes, who puts it at 500-600 miles. In the absence of definite information, the Greeks always exaggerated the size of India.