Ancient India as described by Megasthenês and Arrian/Frag. VII.
Fragm. VII.
Strabo, II. i. 4,—pp. 68-69.
Of the Size of India.
Hipparchos controverts this view, urging the futility of the proofs on which it rests. Patroklês, he says, is unworthy of trust, opposed as he is by two competent authorities, Dêimachos and Megasthenês, who state that in some places the distance from the southern sea is 20,000 stadia, and in others 30,000. Such, he says, is the account they give, and it agrees with the ancient charts of the country.