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India As Known to the Ancient World or India’s Intercourse in Ancient Times with Her Neighbours Egypt Western Asia Greece Rome Central Asia China Further India and Indonesia

1921

The Phcenicians taught the art of navigation to the ancient world ; their ships were long the accepted models of construction and the Greeks learned from them to direct their course at night by the North or as the Greeks called it the Phoenician Star." But the question of the navigation on the Persian Gulf is still entirely shrouded in mist as well as that of the Alpha and Omega of all early c [...] But the exploring expeditions dispatched by Darius in 512 B. C. from the mouth of the Indus under Skylax of Karyanda and two centuries later by Alexander the Great under Nearchos the Admiral of the Macedonian Fleet show the difficulties and dangers of this route the time it occupied and the ignorance of the pilots. [...] The geographical notions of Homer as gathered from his two great epics are embodied in the statements namely that the Ethiopians a burnt-faced people lived in the south of Egypt on the borders of the oceastream at the extreme limits of the world and that they -were divided into two portions the one dwelling twards the setting and the other towards the rising sun. [...] The long stored-up treasures of the Achmmenids once more circulated in the markets ; the observtions and calculations of the Chaldman astronomers which went back thousands of years and the unrvalled philosophical doctrines of the Vedanta and Upanishads became available to the Greeks. [...] He came to Hindusthan to explore the wonders of India and to make himself acquainted with the learning and wisdom of the Brahmans the fame of whom had been spread in the West by the companions of Alexander the Great.
civilization
Pages
90
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146281
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii Gauranganath Banerjee view
Preface
i-ii Gauranganath Banerjee view
Errata
i-i Gauranganath Banerjee view
Western Asia
1-10 Gauranganath Banerjee view
Egypt
10-15 Gauranganath Banerjee view
Greece and Rome
15-29 Gauranganath Banerjee view
Central Asia
29-39 Gauranganath Banerjee view
China
39-48 Gauranganath Banerjee view
Further India
48-54 Gauranganath Banerjee view
Indonesia
54-64 Gauranganath Banerjee view
Java
64-69 Gauranganath Banerjee view
Sumatra
69-70 Gauranganath Banerjee view
Bail
70-71 Gauranganath Banerjee view
Borneo
71-72 Gauranganath Banerjee view
Conclusion
72-73 Gauranganath Banerjee view

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