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The Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society

1942

xxvni] 1942 I PART III Leading Articles THE INDIA OF THE EARLY GREEKS AND ROMANS FROM THE TIME OF ALEXANDER'S INVASION TILL THE FALL OF ALEXANDRIA 326 B. C. TO 641 A. D. By A. C. PERUMALIL S. J. I THE GREEK PERIOD (A) THE GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE GREEKS CONSEQUENT TO THE INVASION OF INDIA BY ALEXANDER In the year 326 B. C. Alexander the Great of Macedonia with his triumphant army crossed the [...] S. Thus the writings of all these Greek authors — the companions of Alexander the Great and the above mentioned authors—furnished the Western world With a fair knowledge of the geography of India hir people and their customs. [...] Eratosthenes has it in 'the following way : "India is bounded on the north from A riana to the eastern sea by the extremities of the Tauros which the Macedonians call the Kaukasos while the natives give distinctive names to the several parts such as Paropamisos EmOdos and Imaos and others besides ; on the west it is bounded by the river Indus ; the southern and eastern sides are much greater [...] But the defeat of Crassus and Antony by the Parthians limited the Roman dominion to the banks of the Euphrates. [...] These ships in fact did not go across the Indian ocean to India but along the coastal waters of Arabia and Karmania to the Indus mouth and then to Barygaza and to the ports in the southern parts of the peninsula3.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
185
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120007
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-viii Saiyid Ali, A. Banerji-Sastri view
The India of the Early Greeks and Romans from the time of Alexander’s Invasion till the fall of Alexandria 326 B. C. to 641 A. D.
225-265 A.C. Perumalil view
Mineralogy and Mining in Ancient India
266-284 S.K. Roy view
Kings of the Jaunpur Dynasty and their Coinage
285-295 S.A. Shere view
Resemblance of Manichaeism to Buddhism
296-306 A. Banerji-Sastri view
The Hamjamana of the Silahara Records
307-318 George Moraes view
Reviews and Notices of Books
319-333 unknown view
Notes of the Quarter
334-340 A. Benerji-Sastri view
Bhojpuri Village Songs Collected from Kayasth Households in Shahabad District Bihar 1940-41
i-lxi W.G. Archer, Sankta Prasad view

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