History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.462

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⁹⁰⁰ Vide a summary of the 'Indian travels of Apollonius' by Osmond De Beauvoir Priaulx in JRAS. 1860, pp. 70-105 (p. 78 for Babylonians and p. 99 for seven rings), Loeb Classical Library, vol. I p. 323. Some scholars hold that the life is a fabrication and that Apollonius never came to India. Supposing for argument that it is a fabrication, the fact remains that in the first quarter of the 3rd century A. D. Philostratus knew that Babylonians were respected in India, that seven planets were known in India and that planets were supposed to be propitiated by the wearing of rings on appropriate week days. Charpentier wrote a booklet 'Indian travels of Apollonius of Tyana' (Leipzig, 1934) in which he stated that he felt convinced that Apollonius had been in India but did not go further than the altars of Alexander (vide 'Indian Culture' vol. III, p. 241 for a review of Charpentier's booklet).