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Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c8.s2.4

Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c8.s2.4

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c8.s2.4

3. *’Ενωτοκοῖται.* Men who sleep on their ears¹. A literal translation of the Skt. karṇaprāvaraṇa. The Indians had many such names for the aborigines, who hung weights to their ears and enlarged them to a great size by this and other means.