Ctesias on Indian Manna
| Autor: | E. H. Johnston |
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| Rok vydání: | 1942 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. 74:29-35 |
| ISSN: | 2051-2066 0035-869X |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0035869x00093837 |
| Popis: | T ITTLE attention has been paid by Sanskrit scholars to the fragments of Ctesias's account of India since McCrindle brought out a translation of them in the Indian Antiquary, x, 296-323,1 but, though later classical writers chose their excerpts almost entirely for their " news-value " as fairy tales of a distant and little-known land, it is to be hoped that they will be re-examined when Dr. F. Jacoby's new edition is published.2 This paper attempts to show that such an inquiry might well prove instructive, particularly with regard to Greek methods of reporting Indian names. A new version of the passage selected for discussion here was discovered by Maas in a work by a Byzantine writer called Michael Psellos and was published by him in the Zeitschrift fiir vergleichende Sprachforschung, 32, 303-6. Psellos, whose date is some two centuries later than that of Photios, our principal authority for Ctesias, appears, however, to have made his extract independently. The portion now in question corresponds to McCrindle's fragment i, 19, and may be translated as follows, omitting the last sentence about the fruit which in my view refers to a different tree,3 |
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