Cunningham's Ancient Geography of India c3.1

c3.1

| | PAGE. |
| PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION | v |
| INTRODUCTION | xvii |
| 1. PIONEERS IN THIS FIELD OF RESEARCH | xvii |
| 2. SOURCES OF THE GEOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT INDIA | xxi |
| FOREIGN : | |
| (1) Classical (Hecatœus, Herodotus, Ktesias, Alexander's Historians, Megasthenes, Eratosthenes, Strabo, Pliny, Periplus, Ptolemy) | xxi |
| (2) Early Christian (Cosmas, Indicopleustes.) | xxvii |
| (3) Arabic | xxviii |
| (4) Chinese | xxix |
| 3. A CRITICAL ESTIMATE OF INDIGENOUS SOURCES | xxxiv |
| I. LITERARY SOURCES | xxxiv |
| *Vedas* | |
| *Dharmasûtras* | |
| (*Why the Punjâb was excluded from the "Land of the Aryans" of the Sûtras?*) | |
| *Manu Samhitâ* | |
| *Buddhist Literature* | |
| *Pânini and his commentators.* | |
| *Râmâyana and the Mahâbhârata.* | |
| *Purânas* | |
| *Bhuvana-kosha* | |
| *Mâhâtmyas* | |