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ANCIENT INDIA

AS DESCRIBED BY

PTOLEMY;

BEING

A TRANSLATION OF THE CHAPTERS WHICH DESCRIBE INDIA
AND CENTRAL AND EASTERN ASIA IN THE TREATISE ON
CEOGRAPHY WRITTEN BY KLAUDIOS PTOLEMAIOS,
THE CELEBRATED ASTRONOMER,

WITH

INTRODUCTION, COMMENTARY, MAP OF
INDIA ACCORDING TO PTOLEMY, AND
A VERY COPIOUS INDEX,

BY

J. W. MOCRINDLE, M.A., M.R.A.S.,

FORMERLY PRINCIPAL OF THE GOVERNMT COLLEGE, PATNA,
AND PBLLOW OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA;
VEMBER OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY
OF EDINBURGH.


Reprinted from the "Indian Antiquary," 1884.



Calcutta: Bombay:

THACKER, SPINK & Co. B.E.S. PRESS.

London:

TRÜBNER & Co.


1885.