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Source: Knowledge Traditions & Practices of India: Trade: A SurveyStrabo (1st century BCE) of Ancient Greece mentioned trading with ancient India.—The 1st century BCE Greek geographer Strabo notes that in his time, about 120 ships sailed for India in a single season from the Red Sea port of Myos Hormos.
The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
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Historical Elements in the Matsya Purana (by Chaitali Kadia)
Historical Elements (3): Foreign Accounts < [Chapter 2 - History and Historical elements]
Egypt Through The Stereoscope (by James Henry Breasted)
Position 86 - The Nilometer, The Measurer Of Inundations, Island Of Elephantine, First Cataract < [Standpoints In Egypt]
Position 23 - The Entrance To The Great Pyramid, The Sepulcher Of Khufu (in North Face), Seen From Below < [Standpoints In Egypt]
Position 31 - The Sole Survivor Of A Great City, The Obelisk Of Heliopolis < [Standpoints In Egypt]
Buddhist records of the Western world (Xuanzang) (by Samuel Beal)
Chapter 15 - Country of Ho-li-sih-mi-kia (Khwarazm) < [Book I - Thirty-Four Countries]
Chapter 8 - Country of Sa-mo-kien (Samarkand) < [Book I - Thirty-Four Countries]
Chapter 16 - Country of Ki-shwang-na (Kesh) < [Book I - Thirty-Four Countries]
Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
Part 2 - Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana at Sañjaya < [Chapter XVI - The Story of Śāriputra]
Appendix 2 - Ahicchatra (capital of northern Pañcala, present Ramnagar) < [Chapter V - Rājagṛha]
Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)
Note on the “ichneumon” motif < [Notes]
Appendix 4.1 - Widow-Burning < [Appendices]
Appendix 2.3 - Poison-Damsels < [Appendices]
The Vishnu Purana (by Horace Hayman Wilson)
Chapter III - Description of Bharata-varsha < [Book II]
Topographical Lists from the Mahābhārata < [Book II]