Ancient India as described by Megasthenês and Arrian/Frag. XXI.
- ↑ Strab. 703, Diod. II. 37, and afterwards an anonymous writer whom Ruhnken (ad Callimach. fragm. p. 448) has praised, and whose account may be read in Boisson. Anecd. Græc. I. 419. The name is written Σίλλας in Diodorus, in Strabo Σιλίας, but best Σίλας, in the epitome of Strabo and in the Anecd. Græc. Bähr, 369, has collected the passages from Ktêsias. Lassen has also illustrated this fable (Zeitschrift. II. 63) from Indian literature:—"The Indians think that the river Silas is in the north, that it petrifies everything plunged in it, whence everything sinks and nothing swims." (Conf. Mahâbhâr. II. 1858.) Śilâ means 'a stone.'—Schw. p. 37, n. 32.