The Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society

In this work he expresses the theory of abnegation and the life of the Brahmins by introducing the famous discussion between the Brahmin called Dandamis and Aleander the Great. [...] Ambrose now describes the journey of this Theban scholar to India in these terms : Wherefore he going on board a ship with some merchants in the Erythraean sea or Mare Rubrum sailed first to the gulf of Adulis saw the town of the Adulitans then the promontory of Aromata and came to the emporium of the Troglodytes ; thence he touched the lands of the Auxumitans whence he sailed with favourable [...] After many days voyage he came to Muziris the emporium of all India on this side of the Ganges"'. Not only here but in other places too he speaks of the Gymnosophists of India of the Indian Ocean of the Ganges river and of Persia. [...] He describes the journey of Apollonius of Tyana to India and his return in these terms : "Apollonius entered (the country of) the Persians crossed the Caucasus (the country of) the Albnians Scythians and Massage':es ; he penetrated the rich kingdoms of India and crossing the broaest river Phison (Ganges) finally came to the Brahmins.... [...] Hence the region east of the Indus up to the very interior will be the Ulterior India and the Bombay-Gujarat coast the Citerior India.