[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Historical geography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography) › The Ancient Geography of India. I. The Buddhist Period, including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang # 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](https://indike.org/pramana/person/cunningham-a) - **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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.cunningham-1871.c1) — 65 parts - [c2 Preface.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.cunningham-1871.c2) — 41 parts - [c3 Appendix.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.cunningham-1871.c3) — 1 part - [c4 List of Maps.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.cunningham-1871.c4) — 77 parts - [c5 Northern India.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.cunningham-1871.c5) — 4 parts - [c6 Western India.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.cunningham-1871.c6) — 4 parts - [c7 Eastern India.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.cunningham-1871.c7) — 8 parts - [c8 Southern India.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.cunningham-1871.c8) — 11 parts - [c9 Ceylon.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.cunningham-1871.c9) — 16 parts - [c10 Appendix A. Approximate Chronology of Hwen Thsang's Travels.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.cunningham-1871.c10) — 19 parts - [c11 Appendix B. Measures of Distance. Yojana, Li, Kroṣa.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.cunningham-1871.c11) — 31 parts - [c12 Appendix C. Correction of Ptolemy's Eastern Longitudes.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.cunningham-1871.c12) — 7 parts - [c13 Index.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.cunningham-1871.c13) — 111 parts --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.cunningham-1871](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.cunningham-1871) · Pramāṇa