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Ctesias of Cnidus: Greek physician who stayed at the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes II Mnemon from 404 to 398/397. Ctesias wrote several books about Persia and India. These books are now lost but were quoted by ancient authors; consequently, we are able to judge their value as history (low) and as works of art (entertaining) : http://www.livius.org/ct-cz/ctesias/ctesias.htm

Photius' excerpt of Ctesias' Indica : http://www.livius.org/ct-cz/ctesias/photius_indica.html

RBSI Ditto ditto an earlier comment ! Too much jumping can be injurious to my health! :)

Where is his other leg?

elephantiasis??

"....They have not yet been identified in Indian writings : their name must have been Chhayapada. Possibly they were considered to have feet large enough to overshadow them. The predecessors of Ktesias had not mentioned the one-footed race called Ekapada, who were able nevertheless to run fast—frag. The passage relating to them in the MahabhArata, according to which they lived in the north, is cited by Lassen, hid. Alt. vol.1, p. 1026n., and that from the Ramayana in the Zeitsrhrift f. d. k. d. Morg. vol. II. p. 40. Pliny (Hist. Nat VII, 2.) incorrectly considers them to have been the name as the Sciapodes...." : http://www.archive.org/stream/AncientIndiaAsDescribedByKtesiasTheKnidianByMccrindleJ.W#page/n89/mode/2up

Shifting to overdrive?

There's something like this in Sir John Mandeville's Travels. He probably took it from Ctesias