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... Alexander's expedition , were inhabited by a people , by the Greeks named Arabitæ : * consequently , India to the west of the Indus comprised Cabul , Candahar , Paishawur , Ghizni , Aria or Herat , together with Kajykan , Sewistan , and ...
... Alexander's expedition , were inhabited by a people , by the Greeks named Arabitæ : * consequently , India to the west of the Indus comprised Cabul , Candahar , Paishawur , Ghizni , Aria or Herat , together with Kajykan , Sewistan , and ...
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... Alexander crossed that river , was the capital of the country lying between the Indus and Hydaspes , or Behut . Lahore appears to have been the capital of Porus , prince of the country named the Punjab , lying between the Hydaspes and ...
... Alexander crossed that river , was the capital of the country lying between the Indus and Hydaspes , or Behut . Lahore appears to have been the capital of Porus , prince of the country named the Punjab , lying between the Hydaspes and ...
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... Alexander , had but little knowledge of India , or its inbabitants . All that is to be found in Herodotus , is extremely vague and unsatisfactory . Before his time , the Persians , it appears , had not only subdued some of the * Asiat ...
... Alexander , had but little knowledge of India , or its inbabitants . All that is to be found in Herodotus , is extremely vague and unsatisfactory . Before his time , the Persians , it appears , had not only subdued some of the * Asiat ...
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... Alexander , sent Scylax , of Caryanda , to explore the Indus and the countries contiguous to it , as Alexander afterwards sent Nearchus . + * The fifth sovereign of the Kyanian Dynasty of Persia . + Mr. Maurice , in his Indian ...
... Alexander , sent Scylax , of Caryanda , to explore the Indus and the countries contiguous to it , as Alexander afterwards sent Nearchus . + * The fifth sovereign of the Kyanian Dynasty of Persia . + Mr. Maurice , in his Indian ...
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... Alexander , and 527 before our æra . + Brerewood says , Cyrus , devictâ Asiâ , reportavit argenti 500,000 talenta Egyptiaca , seu Majora 66 * Diod . Sic . lib . i . c . 27 . + See Plin . lib . xxxiii . c . 3. - and Brerewood , p . 30 ...
... Alexander , and 527 before our æra . + Brerewood says , Cyrus , devictâ Asiâ , reportavit argenti 500,000 talenta Egyptiaca , seu Majora 66 * Diod . Sic . lib . i . c . 27 . + See Plin . lib . xxxiii . c . 3. - and Brerewood , p . 30 ...
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| Title | Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern India |
| Author | Quintin Craufurd |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1817 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2016 |
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