Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c9.s19.3

c9.s19.3

Megasthenes greatly exaggerated the length of India from north to south, and put it at 22,300 stadia at its shortest.² But he is right in noting that India well nigh embraced the whole of the northern Tropic zone of the earth and in the extreme south the gnomon of the sundial may frequently be observed to cast no shadow or cast it to the southward (in summer) while the constellation of the Bear is by night invisible.³