Ancient India as Described by Megasthenês and Arrian |
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according Alex Alexander Alexander's ancient animals ants Arachosia army Arrian Asia banks body boundary Brachmanes breadth of India called caste consists Chandragupta Conf confluence cubits Dandamis Dêimachos Diod Diodorus Dionysos distance eastern elephants Elian Epit Eratosthenês expedition fables fabulous races feet FRAGM fruits Gangaridai Ganges give gold Greeks Herakles Herodotos Hesidrus Hindus Hist horses hundred Hyperboreans Hyphasis identified Indus inhabitants island Jomanes Kalanos Kalinga Kalinipaxa Kaukasos king Ktêsias land Lassen length live Magadha Mahabharata Makedonian Megas Megasthenês Megasthenês says mentioned miles Mount mountains mouth Nearchos Nile Palibothra passage Patroklês philosophers plain Plin Pliny Pôros Prasii probably Ptolemy regard region represents the Sanskrit Rhodopha river Indus Sandrokottos Sanskrit satrap Schwanbeck Seleukos side Skythian soil Solin soul St.-Martin stadia Strabo thenês tion trees tribes tributaries Uttarakurus whence word writers Yule καὶ
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Page 87 - Those who have charge of the city are divided into six bodies of five each. The members of the first look after everything relating to the industrial arts. Those of the second attend to the entertainment of foreigners. To these they assign lodgings, and they keep watch over their modes of life by means of those persons whom they give to them for assistance.
Page 210 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Page 32 - It is accordingly affirmed that famine has never visited India, and that there has never been a general scarcity in the supply of nourishing food.
Page 220 - They wear shoes made of white leather, and these are elaborately trimmed, while the soles are variegated, and made of great thickness.
Page 70 - in contrast to the general simplicity of their style, they love finery and ornament. Their robes are worked in gold and ornamented with precious stones, and they wear also flowered garments made of the finest muslin.
Page 31 - many vast plains of great fertility, more or less beautiful, but all alike intersected by a multitude of rivers. The greater part of the soil moreover is under irrigation, and consequently bears two crops in the course of the year.
Page 64 - ... of a fall of a separate year. From the brow of this curious wall of snow, and immediately above the outlet of the stream, large and hoary icicles depend ; they are formed by the freezing of the melted snow-water...
Page 70 - The simplicity of their laws and their contracts is proved by the fact that they seldom go to law. They have no suits about pledges and deposits, nor do they require either seals or witnesses, but make their deposits and confide in each other. Their houses and property they generally leave unguarded. These things indicate that they possess sober sense. * * Truth and virtue they hold alike in esteem.
Page 221 - ... there is nothing which can resist an Indian archer's shot — neither shield nor breastplate, nor any stronger defence if such there be.
Page 86 - Some superintend the rivers, measure the land, as is done in Egypt, and inspect the sluices by which water is let out from the main canals into their branches, so that every one may have an equal supply of it.