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Megasthenes (/mɪˈɡæsθɪniːz/ mi-GAS-thi-neez;
Ancient Gr****: Μεγασθένης, died c. 290 BCE) was an
ancient Gr**** historian, diplomat,
ethnographer and explorer...
- Ἰνδικά; Latin: Indica) is an
account of
Mauryan India by the Gr****
writer Megasthenes. The
original work is now lost, but its
fragments have
survived in later...
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Geographica by Strabo, and
Bibliotheca historica by
Diodorus Siculus — note
Megasthenes to have
described an
Indian tribe called Sourasenoi who
worshiped one...
- in Ashoka's inscriptions, or the
contemporary Gr****
accounts such as
Megasthenes's Indica, but it is
attested by the
following sources: The
Junagadh rock...
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including the ****enic World, and
Ancient India. Gr****
ethnographer Megasthenes, c. 300 BC, has been
interpreted as
stating that the
contemporary Brahmans...
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written by Nearchus, Onesicritus,
Aristobulus of C****andreia, Strabo,
Megasthenes, Diodorus, Arrian,
Pliny the Elder,
Plutarch and Justin.
Hindu texts...
- has
evidently been
derived from Asvakan, the ****akenoi of Arrian... " (
Megasthenes and Arrian, p 180. See also: Alexander's
Invasion of India, p 38; J.W...
- as
recipients of worship, are
referred to
together in the same sutra.
Megasthenes, a Gr****
ethnographer and an amb****ador of
Seleucus I to the
court of...
- spra**** on
their victims.
Megasthenes and
Pliny the
Elder (quoting
Megasthenes)
mentioned these people in his Indica.
Megasthenes located them at the mouth...
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Medon Agrius Promus Ctesius Acarnan Cycnus Pseras ****anicus
Periphron Megasthenes Thrasymedes Ormenius Diopithes Mecisteus Antimachus Ptolemaeus Lestorides...
