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Art. III.—The Indian Travels of Apollonius of Tyana
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Philostratus, in his life of Apollonius Tyanensis, has given an account of that philosopher's visit to India; and as he professes to have drawn his materials from the note-book of Damis, Apollonius's fellow traveller and friend, as indeed he professes to have edited that note-book much as Hawkesworth edited the journals of Cook, we may fairly assume that he has given an original and authentic account of India, and the only one that has come down to us from the olden world in a complete state. Again, as Apollonius was the only Greek who up to this time had visited India for other purposes than those of war, negotiation, or commerce; as he visited it to make himself acquainted with its rites, discipline, and doctrines; and as he travelled unincumbered by a retinue, and was welcomed by its kings, and was, with Damis, for four months the guest of its Brahmans; he, and Damis with him, had every opportunity of familiar intercourse with all classes of its population, and of thus acquiring much and accurate information on matters beyond the reach of ordinary travellers. Philostratus's account, then, is full of promise; and I propose to give a condensed translation of it, and afterwards to examine into its authority and value.
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page 70 note 1 Yet hespeaks of himself as a young man, Πξοσηκέlν γαρνεψ αρ αΠοδημεLν—I. B. 18 c.
page 70 note 2 I presume this from their qualifications; the one is a good, the other a quick penman: μεΓα δυοιν θερυΠονΓοιν, οίΠερ ανΓψ ΠαΓριΚω ηαΓην δ μεν ες ΓαΧος γΡαΦων ό δ ες καλλος— ib.
page 71 note 1 The Germans whom Theodoric in the sixth century located in the mountains of the Vicentino, and who are known as the “ Sette Communi,” are to this day Germans;and the French refugees after the Edict of Nantes, who settled at Friedrichsdorf in Hesse Homburg, are still French; that these Eretrians then should during so many years have retained their language and customs is nothing very extraordinary. But is it not strange that from the day of their expulsion from Greece their voice has never been heard save in these pages of Philostratus? and almost incredible, that, though so near to Babylon, they escaped the notice of Alexander and his historians* who the one so signally punished, and the other so carefully recorded the punishment of the perfidious and self-exiled Branchidse ?— Strabo 1. xi. xii. c. 49.
page 71 note 2 So Burnes describes the plain of Peshawar, “ thyme and violets perfumed the air,” (Cabool, ii. 70.) At Muchnee “a sweet aromatic smell was exhaled from the grass and plants,” (ib. 101).
page 71 note 3 Wilford says “ the Indian ocean is called Arunoda, or the Red Sea.” (As. Res. viii. p. 316)
page 71 note 4 και δεσμα ό Δαμις ανηΦθαι Γων ΠεΓρων λεΥε, ον ραδια σνμβαλλιν Γηνύλην.—II. B. 3 c.
page 71 note 5 The same tale is in Arrian and Strabo. Wilford thus accounts for i t: not far from Banyam is the den of Garuda, the bird-god; he devoured some servants of Maha Deva, andthis drew upon him the resentment of that irascible deity, whose servants are called Pramat'has.—As. Res. viii. 259.
page 72 note 1 Strabo xv. 1. c. §13. Arrian, Indiea, c. vi.
page 72 note 2 Onesicritus Frag. Hist. Alex. Didot., p. 55, § 25. Lord Comwallis (Correspondence)remarks on the great height of the Bengal Sepoys; Sir C. Napier (Life) thinks our infantry average two inches below them, but cover more ground. Tall men therefore; but five cubits!
page 72 note 3 “ At the foot of the Indus and Cabool river… an ignis fatuus shows itself every evening.”—Burnes, II., p. 68.
page 72 note 4 Cophen, the Cabool. Caucasus Gravakasas, the bright rock mountain, Bohlen, “Das Alte Indien,” I. p. 12.
page 72 note 5 Elphinstone says “An elderly minister of the Raja of Bikaneer… had just come on a camel 175 miles in three days. (Caubul, Introduction, p. 230, I. v.) Sir C. Napier mentions a march of 80 or 90 miles by his camel corps without a halt (” Life of Sir Ch. Napier,” II., 418), and has no doubt with riding camels of marching 200 miles in 48 hours.—III., 78.
page 72 note 6 An exaggeration of a remark of Arrian's, probably: ειΓοΦαγοι δε…Iνδοισιν, όσιγΕ μη ορειοι ανΓοι δε Γα θηρεια κρεα σιΓεονΓα (”Indiea,” xvii. § 5) e. g. “ bears’ flesh and anything else they can get (Elphinstone of Caufiristaun, ib. II., 434), “they all eat flesh half raw,”— ib.438.
page 72 note 7 Of the same mountaineers, Elphinstone: “they drink wine to excess”(ib.)Elian, I. 61, speaks of the Indian drinking bouts; Pliny of the wine: “Reliquos vinum ut Indos palmis exprimere” (Hist. Nat., vi, 32). The Vishnu Purana of wine from the Kadamba tree,— p. 571, note 2.
page72 note 8 The Indian money is: ύλη κεκομψΕυμΕνη, metal refined, prepared: theRoman κεχαραγμενηstamped. In Menu's time gold and silver coins were probably unknown, for he gives (viii, 131,) “ the name of copper, silver, and gold weights commonly used among men:” Υλη κεκομψΕυμενηprobably; but when Apollonius visited India we know that money, gold and silver coins were current, issued by the Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythic kings,— videLassen, “ Baktrische Kb'nige,'’ passim
1page 73 note 1 Nishadha, probably, to the south of Meru (Vishnu Purana, 167.) Arrian similarly connects Tmolus with Nysa (Exped. Alex. v. 1.)
page 73 note 2 Laurels and ivy Alexander finds on Meru; vines, too, by implication (Arrian Exped. v. ii. 6§). Burnes says that in Cabool the vines are so plentiful that the grapes are given for three months in the year to cattle (ut sup.ii. 131. Seealso Wilson's Ariana Antiq. p. 193.)
page 73 note 3 Chares (”Hist. Alex.,” p. 117, §13) one of the historians of Alexander, speaks of an Indian god Σοροαξειος, which in Greek means οινοΠοιος, the wine maker, Sanscrit, Suradevas (von Bohlen), but the Vishnu Purana knows of nowinegod, only of a wine goddess (videp. 76). In general, however, Bacchus may be identified with Siva, and Hercules with Vishnu and Krishna.
page 73 note 4 For the Indo-Baechus myth see Arrian, v. 1, who receives it with hesitation; and Strabo, xv. 1, 9, who rejects it; Lassen, Ind. Alt. I I. 133; von Bohlen, utsup., I. 142; and Schwanbeck on Megasthenes, “ Frag, Hist.,” I I. 420, Didot.
page 74 note 1 According to Avrian, utsup, and I I. 5, it was Meru that Alexander ascended, and on Meru that he feasted and sacrificed to Bacchus.
page 74 note 2 Aornus; Awara, Awarana, a Stockade.—Wilson Ariana Antiqua., p. 192; but Kenas according to v. Bohlen, and Rani-garh according to Lassen, Indische Alterthums: 140, note 7.
page 74 note 3 Just in the same locality (see Arrian, IV. xxx. 7) Alexander first sees a troop of elephants, and afterwards joins in an elephant hunt.
page 75 note 1 Pliny (viii. v.) describes the elephant as crossing rivers in the same way; he speaks of their wonderful self-respect, “ mirus pudor,” and of one called Ajax; Arrian (lndica, c. 14 and 15) of their grief at being captured, of their attachment to their keepers, their love of music, and their long life extending though to but 200 years (Onesicritus gives them 300, and sometimes 500 years.—Strabo, xv.);./Elian (xiii. §9), and Pliny (viii.), state that they carry three warriors only, and are much larger than the African. The division into marsh and plain, &c, I suspect, is from Juba.
page 75 note 2 Ctesias (58 §) says the Indus Is 40 stadia where narrowest. See Lessen, ut tupra, II. 637, who accounts for Ctesias’ exaggeration (his reasons do not apply to Damis), and Wilson's Notes on the lndica of Ctesias, who excuses it (p. 13).
page 75 note 3 “Indus.…in jugo Caueasi montis.… effusus.… undeviginti accipit amnes.… nusquam latior quinquapinta sladiis.”—Pliny Hist. Nat., vi. 23.
page 75 note 4 So Ctesias, so Ibn Batuta: “ The Scinde is the greatest river in the world, and overflows during the hot weather just as the Nile does; and at this time they sow the land.” Burnes, I think, shows that it carries a greater body of water than the Ganges.
page 76 note 1 Eratosthenes gives it the same animals as the Nile, except the sea-horse. Onesicritus the sea-horse also; Strabo, xv. 1, 13.
page 76 note 2 Sir C. Napier attributed a fever which prostrated his army and the natives, to an extraordinary rise of the Indus.—Quarterly Review, Oct. 1858, p. 499.
page 76 note 3 Arrian's Indica: “Their dress is of cotton, their sandals of leather;” but Herodotus gives the Egyptian priests ύΠοδημια βυβλινΠ, II. 37.
page76 note 4 Wilford (As. Res. viii. 349), speaks of Tacshaila and its ruins; Wilson identifies Taxila with Taksha-sila of the Hindus between the Indus and Hydaspes, in the vicinity of Manikyala.—Ar. Ant., 196. Arrian celebrates its size and wealth the largest city between the Indus and the Hydaspes. V. 8 c. Exped. Alex.
page 76 note 5 Bam Raz, (Architecture of the Hindus, p. 2,) of the temples of Vishnu and Siva, says, that the latter should be without the village. Hiouen-Thsang (I. 151) describes Taxila, and speaks of a stupa and convent outside the walls, built by Asoka.
page 76 note 6 The tope of Manikyala, described by Elphinstone, is 100 feet in circumference, and 70 feet high (Ari. Ant. 31). Lassen (II. 514 and 1151) speaks of the influence of Greek art on Indian architecture; but adds, that the Indians built with brick. They may, however, have faced their buildings with stone; and the λιθος κογχυλιαΓοςmay have been of that porphyry, or red marble, used in the tombs at Tattah.—Life of Sir C. Napier, iv. 38.
page 77 note 1 Lassen (513–4) states, on Singhalese authority, that the Hindus were skilled in mosaics; and (II. 426–7) he describes a casket the figures on which he supposes were of a mosaic of precious stones.
page 77 note 2 To ευσχιον, Γο εμΠνουν, καί Γο εισεχον Γε, καί εξεχον.
page 77 note 3 Arrian, Indica vi., and compare with it Vishnu Purana, note 4, p. 100, where is a description of the barbarous races of India.
page 77 note 4 Lassen, ut sup. 514. The underground floor, Elphinstone says, even the poor have at Peshawur.—Caubul, Introduc, p. 74.
page 77 note 5 “ On represente le soleil la face rouge… ses membres sont prononce's, il porte des pendants a ses oreilles. Un collier de perles lui descend du cou snr la poitrine.”—Reinaud, Mém. sur l'lnde, p. 121.
page 78 note 1 “ Drinking, dice, women and hunting, let the king consider asthe four most pernicious vices.”—Menu, vii. 50.
page 78 note 2 Arrian, Indica, xi. c, 8§.
page 79 note 1 The old Stoic maxim: “ Solus sapiens rex.” Olearius in Philost.
page 79 note 2 Hiouen Thsang, I. 70, 71, describes the nice cleanliness of the Indians, but confines the washing before meat to the hands.
page 79 note 3 Menu of the kingly duties: “ Having consulted with his ministers.… having used exercise becoming a warrior, and having bathed, let the king enter at noon hisprivate apartments for the purpose of taking food” (vii. 216). But Strabo (xv. I. 51) says, the Indians use friction rather than gymnastic exercises.
page 79 note 4 “ Le roi et ses ministres ornent leurs tetes de guirlandes de fleurs.”—Hiouen Thsang, p. 70,1. v.
page 79 note 5 Strabo, quoting Nearchus, better describes the Indians, at least hedescribes them as we at this day find them: μηδε Υαρ Υαρνοσονς Υαρνοσονςειναι Πολλας δια ΓΠν λιΓοΓηΓα Γης διαιΓης καί Γην αοινιαν (xv. 1, 45), their food principally ορυςαν ροΦηΓην, rice curry or porridge ?—§53.
page 80 note 1 A Chinese juggler lately performed the same feat in London.
page 80 note 2 Allusion to Thucydides, I.
page 80 note 3 Strabo of the Indian city sediles says a part took note of the births and deaths, that the birth or death of good or bad men may be known: αΦανΕις ειεν αίκρειΓονες καί χειρους γοναι καί θαναΓοι (xv. 1, 51); from Megasthenes, Frag. Hist., I I. p. 431, § 37, and consult Bardesanestos’ account of the Σαμαναιοιin 1. iv. c. 17 of Porphyry de Abstinentia.
page 81 note 1 Strabo, xv. I. 33, connects them with the Malli. Burnes identifies them with the people of Ooch, the Malli with those of Mooltan.— Ut sup. I., p. 99.
page 82 note 1 ΣοΦιαν δε μεΓαχειρισθαι ούϋεν χρησΓον είδοΠας—Philost. II. c. 33.
page 82 note 2 These embossments represented, the king goes on to say, Hercules setting up his pillars at Gades, and driving back the ocean—proof, he asserts, that it was the Egyptian, and not the Theban, Hercules who was at Gades.
page 82 note 3 Menu, among the vices the king is to shun, names dancing and instrumental music (vii. 47), but afterwards advises that, “ in the inmost recesses of his mansion, having been recreated by musical strains, he should take rest early.”—vii. 224–5; see, however, As. Res., ix. p. 76.
page 83 note 1 Elphinstone (ut supra, I. 40) speaks of white camels as rare.
page 83 note 2 Probably, suggests Wilford, a corruption from Rac'hyas.—As. Res., ix. 41.
page 83 note 3 Hydraotis, in Strabo Hyarotis, Sanskrit Iravati; Hyphasis, Vipasa.—Vishnu Purana, p. 181.
page 83 note 4 Strabo gives their number as nine —xv. I. 3, 33.
page 84 note 1 This worm is mentioned and described by Ctesias, but he places it in the Indus.—Frag. Ctes. Ed. Didot, 27, p. 85.
page 84 note 2 This ass and its horn, with some slight difference, are also in Ctesias (ib., p. 2–5). Wilson sees in this horned as3 two animals “ rolled into one,” the gorkhar, or wild horso, found north of the Hindu-Koh, and the rhinoceros, whose horn has to this day, in the East, a high reputation as an antidote.—Notes 6n Ctesias, 53 and 49.
page 84 note 3 Strabo, xv. I. 22, butin the south ot India. I believe it isindigenous”to Ceylon, and is not found in India at all.
page 85 note 1 Strabo (ib., § 29) describes a similar trick, by means of which the people catch the monkeys. With regard to that described in the text, Waterton has observed, that the monkey never throws, only lets fall.
page 85 note 2 Elphinstone, describing this bank of the Hrphasis, tells only of sand-hills, and hard clay, and tufts of grass, and little bushes of rue. Of the right bank, however, he says: “ There were so many large and deep watercourses throughout the journey, that, judging from them alone, the country must be highly cultivated.” —Introd. Burnes, too, observes of Balkh: “ The crops are good, and the wheat stalks grow as high as in England, and do not present the stunted stubble of India.” — Ut sup., II., 206.
page 85 noten 3 Can this be the purple mangosteen, such as it might be described by those who only knew of it from hearsay?
page 85 note 4 Almost all that is here said of serpents will be found in Pliny (viii., 11, 13); their size, though scarcely so large as those of Philostratus, is noticed by Onesicritusand Nearehus (Frj;. Hist. Alex.; p. 60 and 105, Didot.); their beards by Jelian (xi., c. 26); the beardand the stone in their heads, with some difference (the stones are αυΓογλυΦοι,)by Tzetzes from Poseidippus-.— Chil., vii., 653, 609; the magic power of their eyes by Lucan (vii. 657).
page 86 note 1 The snake charmer still exists in India. Bochart (Hierozo., cvi. III., II. v.) gives all the passages in ancient authors bearing on the subject.
page 86 note 2 At Ephesus (L. iv., c. 3), where he displayed his knowledge of the language of sparrows.
page 87 note 1 Strabo (ut sup., c.22)says, they have no musical instruments besides cymbals, drums, and κρόΓαλοι(rattles, castanets?).
page 87 note 2 ”The milk of any forest beast, except the buffalo, must be carefully shunned.” —Menu, v. 11.
page 87 note 3 Vide Hist. Frag. II., 438, on a fragment of Megasthenes and Bardesanes on Brahmans and Samanoeans in Porphyry, de Abstinent., L. iv., 17 c, ad calcem.
page 87 note 4 Ctesias tells of a sacred place in an uninhabited part of the country, which the Indians honour in the name of the sun and the moon; it is fifteen days’ journey from the Sardian mountains — Γου όρους Γης Σαρδους § 8, p. 81.
page 88 note 1 “In the morning, vapours or clouds of smoke ascended from the wells till the atmosphere was sufficiently heated to hide it,” between the Ravi and the Chenab. —Burnes, II., 38.
page 88 note 2 With the well of the text compare the test fountain in Ctesias; its water hardens into a cheese-like substance, which, rubbed into a powder and mixed with water, administered to suspected criminals makes them tell all they erer did (§ 14, p. 82); also the water of probation mentioned by Porphyry. With the fire of pardon compare that other water, in some cave temple seemingly, which purified from voluntary and involuntary offences (Porphyry de Styge).
page 88 note 3 Olearius, h. J., suggests that these may have been barometers; and then Damis, like the astronomer in Kasselas, merely confounds the power of feretelling with the power of producing.
4 Ω θανμασΓης ΦιλοσοΦιας δί ην Ινδοι —Plutarch de Fortuua Alex. Op. Var.. I. p. 585.
page 89 note 1 ΑΠο Γης γης ΠηχΕις δυΟ(Philos. I I I., c. 15), two cubits from the ground, no great height, but ce n'est que le premier pouee qui coute.
page 89 note 2 Sir C. Napier says, of Trukkee, “ On reaching the top, where we remained during the night, every man's bayonet had a bright flame on the point. A like appearance had also been observed going from Ooch to Shapoor.”—Life, III., 272. May not the night light of the Sophoi be referred to some similar phenomenon?
page 89 note 3 Compare with these fountains those of milk, wine, &c, of which Calanus speaks in his interview with Onesicritus (Strabo, ut sup., § 64); and that happy India, a real pays de Cocagne, which Dio Ohrysostom ironically describes in Celsenis Phrygise Orat., xxxv., II., p. 70.
page 89 note 4 Hardy, Eastern Monachism (p. 112), by which it would seem that the Brahmans wear long hair; the Buddhist priest, on the other hand, shaves his head; so also Bardesanes describes the newly-elected Samanjean: ξυραμενος δε ΓονσωμσΠος Γα ΠεριΓΓα λαμβανει σΓολην αΠεισι Γε Προς Σαμαναιονς—Porphyry, ut supra.
page 89 note 5 Still worn by some of the mountain tribes about Cabool. Elphinstonesays of the Bikaneers, “they wear loose clothes of white cotton, and a remarkable turban which rises high over the head.”—Cabool, I., 18.
page 89 note 6 Hierocles speaks of the Brahman garments as made from a soft and hairy(δερμαΓωδη)filaments obtained from stones (asbestos).—Frag. Hist., iv. p. 430. Burnes says of the Nawab of Cabool, “ he produced some asbestos, here called cotton-stone, found near Jelalabad” (ii. 138).
page 90 note 1 “ The three first classes ought to carry staves.”—Menu, i. 45. “ The priest's should reach to his hair.”—Ib., 46.
page 90 note 2 When Damis speaks of his knowledge of languages to Apollonius, Apollonius merely observes that he himself understands all languages, and that without having learned them; and more—that he knows not only what men speak, but their secret thoughts (L. I., cxix.) But asin India he is accompanied by, and frequently makes use of an interpreter; this pretension of his has, from the time of Eusebius (in Hieroclem, xiv.), been frequently ridiculed as an idle boast. Philostratus however was too practised a writer to have left his hero open to such a charge. His faults are of another kind. His facts and statements too often, and with a certain air of design, confirm and illustrateeach other: thus, with regard to this very power claimed by Apollonius, observe that lie professes notto speak, but to know all languages and men's thoughts—a difference intelligible to all who are familiar with the alleged facts of mesmerism; and look at him in his first interview with Phraotes;watch him listening to, and understanding the talk of the king and the sages, and only then asking Iarchas to interpret for him when he would himself speak. Observe also that Iarchas admits only to a certain extent the power of Apollonius, and remember his surprise when he finds that Phraotes knows and speaks Greek.
page 91 note 1 “ At sunrise, at noon, and at sunset, let the Brahman go to the waters and bathe.”—Menu, vi. 22. “ Sunrise and sunset are the hours when, having made his ablution, he repeats the text which he ought to repeat.”— II., 222. From the Vishnu Purana, however, it seems the Richas shine in the morning, the prayers of the Yajush at noon, and portions of the Saman in the afternoon.—p. 235. Barde’ saues, ντ ςνρα, τον τοιονο Xροοοο τθς θςɛρας κι τθς οοκτνς τν πλινο ιννος τνο αον απνιναν κι οας
page 92 note 1 The Ganges is a goddess.—Vishnu Purana.
page 92 note 2 Wilford refers this to the legend of Bhagiratha, “ who led the Ganges to the ocean, tracing with the wheels of his chariot two furrows, which were to be the limits of her encroachments.”—As. Res., viii. 298.
page 95 note 1 Ibn Batuta speaks of Hindus 120, 130, and 140 years of age. Bumes of one at Cabul of 114, apparently with all his faculties about him.—II., 109.
page 96 note 1 According to Megasthenes, ειναι δε кj τοδε μεγα εν τņ Iνδων γņ παντας Irδους ειναι ελερους.—Arrian Indica, xi. ουδε Iνδοις αλλος δουλος εστι. Onesicritus limits this to the subjects of Musicanus.—Strabo, ut sup., § 54.
page 97 note 1 Megasthenes (Strabo, ut supra, § 59) gives pretty nearly the same account of the Brahmanicil doctrines, that the world has a beginning, and will have an end; that God, its raler and creator, pervades it; that besides the four elements there is a fifth, sether; and Alexander Polyhistor asserts that Pythagoras was a disciple of the Brahmans; Frg. Hist., III. § 138, p. 239, and p. 241 mentions sether as one of the Pythagorean elements.
page 97 note 2 The boat among the Hindus is one of the types of the earth.—Wilford As. Res., viii. 274; Von Bohlen quotes this passage to prove that the Hindus had the knowledge of one God.—Das Alte Indien, i. 152.
page 98 note 1 Ctesias, p. 80, § 7; Didot.
page 98 note 2 Id., p. 73. § 4. Wilson, Notes on Ctesias, explains and accounts for these myths.
page 98 note 3 Id., § 104 and 84, Among the people of India, from Hindu authority quoted by Wilford, are the Ecapada, one-footed. “ Monosceli singulis cruribus, eosdemque Sciapodas voeari,” from Pliny (ib.) From Wilson's Notes, the one-footed and the Sciapods should be two different races.
page 99 note 1 Strabo from Megasthenes, ib., § 56. Ctesias also mentions them.
page 99 note 2 In the Vishnu Purana: “ The seven horses of the sun's car are the metres of the Vedas,” p. 218. Sculptured or painted horses always.
page 99 note 3 Ctesias, p. 82, § 12, and p. 95, § 70. Wilson (Ariana Antiqua) has shown from the Mahabharata, that this story has an Indian foundation. § Those tribes between Meru and Mandura verily presented in lumps of a drona weight, that gold which is dug up by Pippilikas (ants), and which is therefore called ‘ Pippilika ant-gold,’” (p. 135, note); and see A Journey to Lake Mànasaròvara, by Moorcroft, who speaks of a sort of marmot in the gold country which Scliwanbeck supposes to be the original of this ant.—As. Res., xii. 442.
page 100 note 1 Is this an indistinct and garbled account of the Chinese mode of making pearls described in a late Journal of the Society?
page 101 note 1 Διατριβην αναγραψαι кj ö,τι ηкоυσεν η ειδεν ανατυπωσαι—σøοδϱα ικανος ην, кj επετεδευε τουτο αριστα ανθρωπων.—I., c. 19.
page 101 note 2 Dangers which not even Hiouen-Thsang was indifferent to; but Apollonius's indifference we may account for by an observation of Cicero: “ In India, quisapicntes habentur, nudi setatem agunt, et Caucasi nives hyemalemque vim perferunt sine dolore.”—Tusc. Qurest., L. v.
page 102 note 1 Philostratus scarcely so strong, το γαρ πλωιμον αυτου τοσουτον, its breadth at the ferry where people usually cross.—II., 17 and 18.
page 102 note 2 Bardasanes, who knew of Brahmans and Buddhists only from report, has giren a very clear and intelligible account of both. I have already referred to it. —Porphyry, iv. 17.
page 103 note 1 Vide supra, note 4, in page 88.
page 103 note 2 Frag. Hist., § 91, p. 419.
page 103 note 3 The words are: ειναι δε τα δωρα τον τε. Lassen has translated this a statue of Hermes, the arms of which had been broken off at the shoulders by a boy. To say nothing of the harshness of construction which such a translation would imply, a passage from Dio Cassius speaks of this Hermes as a youth.
page 103 note 4 C2ramana Karja, teacher of the Cramans.—Lassen, iii. 60.
page 104 note 1 Kαι Ηεϱσων кj Σουσιανων кj Гεδϱωσιων παιδες τας Συøοκλεους τϱαγωδιας ηδον, ut supra.
page 104 note 2 De Homero Oratio, LIII., 277; p. II. Reiske.
page 104 note 3 Variso Hist., L. xii., c. 48.
page 104 note 4 Bayer Reg. Græc. Bactriani Hist., p. 117.
page 105 note 1 Traceable to the same sources as those from which Dio Chrysostom obtained his stories about India. In his oration to the people of Alexandria, he speaks of Bactrians, Scythians, Persians, and a few Indians (Iνδων τινας), as frequenting their city (Ib. I, p. 672); and as authority for his Indian tale to the Celæni, he gives: τινεç των αøικνουμενων εøασαν αøικνουνται δε ου πολλοι τινες εμποϱιας ένεκεν.όυτοι δι επιμιγνυνται τοις πϱος θαλαττη τουτο δε ατιμον εστεν Iνδων το γενος, οì τε αλλοι ψεγουσιν αυγους.—II., 72, p.3.