Ancient India as Described by Ktesias the Knidian, Being a Translation of the Abridgement of His "Indika" by Photios, and of the Fragments of that Work Preserved in Other Writers: With Introduction, Notes and IndexThacker, Spink & Company, 1882 - 104 pages |
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According to Ktêsias Ælian Antigonos Apoll Aristot armed Arrian Baehr beasts Bharoch birds breadth Calamus Rotang called carcase casts Chil cinnabar cinnamon claws colour Conf cubits death describes Diodor dogs drink elephant Elian Ethiopia eyes fighting Frag Geog goats gold Greek grow gryphons hair hares and foxes Herodot horns horses huckle-bone human flesh hunting Indian animals Indian reed inhabit karuppu king kirfah Knidian Ktêsias says Ktêsias the Knidian Ktêsias's kurunta Kynamolgoi Kynokephaloi Lassen lion live Martikhora Megasthenes milk Mirab mountains Mysia oxen Persian Philostrat Photios Plin Pliny Pliny Hist produce amber purple Pygmies red like cinnabar region rhinoceros root row of teeth Sanskrit seen sheep Siptakhora stadia Stephen of Byzantium stings stones Strabo tails talents weight thick thirty days trees tribe Tychsen Tzetzês unicorn Uranius vide Frag VIII Weltheim word worm writers XVII
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Page 26 - These horns are made into drinking-cups, and such as drink from them are attacked neither by convulsions nor by the sacred disease (epilepsy) ; nay, they are not. even affected by poisons, if either before or after swallowing them they drink from these cups wine, water, or anything else.
Page 94 - an animal of great size, belonging to India, and from it is got what is called the toupha, wherewith the captains of armies decorate their horses and their standards when taking the field. They say of it that if its tail be caught by a tree, it no longer stoops, but remains standing through its unwillingness to lose even a single hair. On seeing this, the people of the neighbourhood approach and cut off the tail, and then the creature flies off when docked entirely of its tail.
Page 86 - Siptakhora tree ou rafts, and as many talents of a red dye-stuff and one thousand of elektron or the gum exuding from the Siptakhora tree. To the Indians they sold their wares, and obtained from them in exchange, bread, oatmeal, cotton clothes, bows, and lances, which they required in hunting and killing wild animals. Every fifth year the king presented them with three hundred bows, three thousand lances, one hundred and twenty thousand small shields, and tifty thousand swords.
Page 29 - But again there are certain trees in India as tall as the cedar or the cypress, having leaves like those of the date palm, only somewhat broader, but having no shoots sprouting from the stems. They produce a flower like the male laurel, but no fruit. In the Indian language they are called /tvpouSa, te unguent roses.
Page 54 - ... all other asses, wherever found, and whether wild or tame, and even all solid-hoofed animals, have neither a huckle-bone (dn-rpayaXos) nor a gall in 54 the liver, the Indian horned asses have according to Ktesias both a huckle-bone and a gall in the liver.
Page 3 - India and partly also on the reports of Indians themselves, who in those days were occasionally to be seen at the Persian Court...
Page 16 - In their country is a lake eight hundred stadia in circumference, which produces an oil like our own. If the wind be not blowing, this oil floats upon the surface, and the Pygmies going -upon the lake in little boats collect it from amidst the waters in small tubs...
Page 92 - ... respect so far a contrast to the elephant. Its feet and its hide closely resemble those of that animal. The hide when dried is four fingers thick, and this is sometimes used instead of iron in ploughs for tilling the land. The Ethiopians in their language call the rhinoceros Arou or...
Page 15 - they are very diminutive, the tallest of them being but two cubits in height, while the majority are only one and a half. They let their hair grow very long — down to their knees, and even lower. They have the largest beards anywhere to be seen, and, when these have grown sufficiently long and copious, they no longer wear clothing, but, instead, let the hair of the head fall down their backs far below the knee, while in front are their beards trailing down to their very feet. When their hair has...
Page 57 - ... into the water, where they make a sumptuous repast of it. The hide of the Skolex is two fingerbreadths thick. The natives have devised the following methods for catching it. To a hook of great strength and thickness they attach an iron chain, which they bind with a rope made of a broad piece of cotton. Then they wrap wool round the hook and the rope, to prevent them being gnawed through by the worm, and having baited the hook with a kid, the line is thereupon lowered into the stream. As many...