Posted on: 27 November 2010

Digital Rare Book :
Ancient India As Described By Megasthenes and Arrian.
By J.W.McCrindle
Published by Trubner & Co., London - 1877

Megasthenes (Μεγασθένης, ca. 350 – 290 BC) was a Greek ethnographer in the Hellenistic period, author of the work Indica. He was born in Asia Minor (modern day Turkey) and became an ambassador of Seleucus I of Syria to the court of Sandrocottus, who possibly is Chandragupta Maurya in Pataliputra, India. However the exact date of his embassy is uncertain. Scholars place it before 288 BC, the date of Chandragupta's death.

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OMG RBSI !! Imagine me jumping up and down in excitement. Have been looking for this book for ages ( even spent a day haunting all the best old book shops in Charing Cross where all the dealers looked helpless! ) I have some of his other books in the series but this was the most important of all and i was making do with references and extracts! Thank you and internet zindabad!! Megasthenes is a character in my next book for which the research has begun.

As always Sumedha Verma...looking forward for your next opus.

thank you, i will Look into it a LOT*i am also searching as i told you earlier Roots of Kalash* no body knows the ORIGIN of Kalash *any Help in this regards will be HIGHLY appriciated*