The Ancient Geography of India. I. The Buddhist Period, including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang
Identification of the places named by Alexander's historians and Xuanzang, province by province, from his own surveys, with distances and maps.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Alexander Cunningham
- Extent
- 1,922 passages, 181,155 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · London: Trübner 1871, with 13 maps; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Alexander Cunningham †1893); published before 1931:…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 65 parts
- c2 Preface. — 41 parts
- c3 Appendix. — 1 part
- c4 List of Maps. — 77 parts
- c5 Northern India. — 4 parts
- c6 Western India. — 4 parts
- c7 Eastern India. — 8 parts
- c8 Southern India. — 11 parts
- c9 Ceylon. — 16 parts
- c10 Appendix A. Approximate Chronology of Hwen Thsang's Travels. — 19 parts
- c11 Appendix B. Measures of Distance. Yojana, Li, Kroṣa. — 31 parts
- c12 Appendix C. Correction of Ptolemy's Eastern Longitudes. — 7 parts
- c13 Index. — 111 parts