Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern India, Volume 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1817 - 731 pages |
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... Alexander's expedition , were inhabited by a people , by the Greeks named Arabitæ : * conse- quently , India to the west of the Indus comprised Cabul , Candahar , Paishawur , Ghizni , Aria or Herat , together with Ka- jykan , Sewistan ...
... Alexander's expedition , were inhabited by a people , by the Greeks named Arabitæ : * conse- quently , India to the west of the Indus comprised Cabul , Candahar , Paishawur , Ghizni , Aria or Herat , together with Ka- jykan , Sewistan ...
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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 Hydas- pes 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 Hydas- pes and ...
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... Alexander , had but little knowledge of India , or its inha- bitants . All that is to be found in Hero- dotus , is extremely vague and unsatisfac- tory . Before his time , the Persians , it ар- pears , had not only subdued some of the ...
... Alexander , had but little knowledge of India , or its inha- bitants . All that is to be found in Hero- dotus , is extremely vague and unsatisfac- tory . Before his time , the Persians , it ар- pears , had not only subdued some of the ...
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... Alexander , sent Scylax , of Caryanda , to explore the Indus and the countries con- tiguous 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 con- tiguous 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 Ægyptiaca , seu Majora 30 . Diod . Sic . lib . i . c . 27 . + See Plin . lib . xxxiii . c . 3. - and Brerewood , p ...
... Alexander , and 527 before our æra . † Brerewood says , " Cyrus , devictâ Asiâ , reportavit argenti 500,000 talenta Ægyptiaca , seu Majora 30 . Diod . Sic . lib . i . c . 27 . + See Plin . lib . xxxiii . c . 3. - and Brerewood , p ...
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