[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916) › c8.s2.9 # Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c8.s2.9 Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c8.s2.9 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c8.s2.9) 6. The Hyperboreans. This legend, like that of the Pygmies, is very old. It may belong to the primitive Indo-Aryan stock. They are the Uttara-kuru of the Indian epic, transliterated as Attakorae by later writers. Hekataeus wrote a pamphlet about them. Pindar places them north of the Danube². - [Previous: c8.s2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c8.s2.8) - [Next: c8.s2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c8.s2.10) - [Up: c8.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c8.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c8.s2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c8.s2.9) · Pramāṇa