The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c22.s13: XIII. Foreign Accounts

The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c22.s13

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XIII. Foreign Accounts

A. Greek

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*Herodotus.* History, tr. G. Rawlinson, London, 1858-60.

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*Xenophon.* Cyropædia. Ed. and tr. W. Miller, London and New York, 1914.

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*Megasthenes.* Fragments of the Indica. Ed. E. A. Schwanbeck. Bonn, 1846, tr. J. W. McCrindle, Ancient India as described by Megasthenes and Arrian. Calcutta, Bombay, and London, 1877.

*The Commerce and Navigation of the Erythraian Sea.* Calcutta, 1879. This volume contains a translation (with commentary) of Periplus Erythraei Maris by an unknown writer of the first Christian century, and of the second part of the Indika of Arrian, in which is described the memorable voyage of Nearchos from the mouth of the Indus to the head of the Persian Gulf.

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*Ancient India as described by Ktêsias the Knidian.* Calcutta, 1882. Ktêsias was the first writer who gave the Greeks a special treatise on India. The work is lost but we have an epitome of its contents by Phôtios, and fragments of it in other writers.

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*Ancient India as described by Ptolemy.* Calcutta, 1885. This volume contains not only Ptolemy’s Geography of India, but also his Geography of Central and Eastern Asia, and a copy of his map of India.

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*The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great.* First Edition, Westminster, 1893. New Edition, 1896. Contains translations of the accounts of Alexander’s campaigns in India and Afghânistân found in Arrian, Q. Curtius, Diodorus Siculus, Plutarch and Justinus.

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*Ancient India as described in Classical Literature.* Being a collection of Greek and Latin texts relating to India, extracted from Herodotus, Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, Pliny, Aelian, Philostratus, Dion Chrysostum, Porphyry, Stobaeus, the Itinerary of Alexander the Great, the Periêgêsis of Dionysius, the Dionysiaka of Nonnus, the Romance History of Alexander and other works. Westminster, 1901.

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B. CHINESE.

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*Fâ-hien*, tr. Giles, London and Shanghai, 1877.

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—— tr. Legge, Oxford, 1886.

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Watters. "Fa-hsien and his English Translators." China Review, VIII.

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*Si-yu-ki*. Buddhist Records of the Western World. Translated from the Chinese of Hiuen-Tsiang by Samuel Beal. 2 volumes. Latest reprint, London, 1906.

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*The Life of Hiuen-Tsiang* by the Shaman Hwui Li, with an Introduction containing an account of the works of I-tsing. Tr. Samuel Beal. New Edition, London, 1911.

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*On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India* by Thomas Watters, ed. T. W. Rhys Davids and S. W. Bushell. Oriental Translation Fund. New Series. Vol. XIV, London, 1904.

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*I-tsing*. A Record of the Buddhist Religion as practised in India and the Malay Archipelago, tr. J. Takakusu, Oxford, 1896.

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C. ARAB.

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*Alberûnî's India*, tr. with notes and indices by Edward C. Sachau, in two volumes. London, 1910.

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*Elliot and Dowson's History of India as told by its own Historians*. Vol. I. containing translations from various Arab writers.