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Art.

Indian

III.?The

Osmond

Travels

account

in

have fellow

his materials

as friend, as Hawkesworth

much

assume

that

and

India,

tho

in a

ho

has

only

state.

completo

has

Tyancusis,

note-book

indeed

an

given

of

he

to

Damis, Apollonius's to havo edited that

professes the journals wo may of Cook, account of and authontic original

edited an

given that

ono

Esq.

to India; and as ho professes

tho

from

By

of Tyana.

1859.]

Apollonius

visit

and

traveller

note-book

world

of

lifo

of that philosopher's

drawn

fairly

his

Piuaulx,

19thFebruary,

[Read PniLosTiiATUS,

of Apollonius

Db Beauvoir

como

has

as

Again,

us

to

down

was

Apollonius

from tho

tho

only

olden Grcok

who up to this timo had visited India for other purposes than those of war, negotiation, or commerce; as ho visited it to mako himself with

acquainted unincumbered with

Damis,

Damis

with

its rites, and doctrines; and as ho travelled discipline, a retinue, and was welcomed and was, by by its kings, for four months tho guest its Brahmans of ; ho, and of familiar intercourse with him, had every opportunity

all classes of its population, on

information

Philostratus's a

and of thus acquiring much and accurate tho

beyond

reach

of

account, then, is full of promise;

condensed

authority

matters

translation and

of

it,

aud

travellers.

ordinary

and I propose to givo to

afterwards

examine

into

its

value.

Towards tho close of tho first half century of our era, Apollonius being then upwards of 40 years of ago1 and resident at Antioch, set out to visit India, its Brahmans and Sramans (Wppavcs). Ho took with

him

arrived

two only at Nineveh,

slaves, family ho met with

of the place, who recommended knowledge

of

tho

Persian, Armenian,

road

to

to act and

himself

Babylon,

and Cadusian

apparently wras joined and

as his

secretaries2; a nativo

by Damis,

to his notico by a practical an

languages.

acquaintance

Together

with

tho

thoy journey

1Yet he irpoaijKtiv yap vupavtipi speaks of himself as a young man, airoHnptiv I. B. HI c. I presume this from their qualifications; tho one is a good, tho other a cpiiclc o ptv ?c r?x??tf Svoiv Otpavrovroiv, fara otntp nvrtp vrarptKio nornv, penman:

?

ypafoji;

6 o" f Ka\\oc,~ib.


INDIAN TRAVELS OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA. on to Babylon, but warned by a Cassia and thoso Eretrians, whom settled there, and whom they find they heard, using Greek letters1, and so

Herodotus

fountain

turn aside

dream first Darius, 500 still speaking still dwelling

7l to visit

years before, had Greek, and still, as near that wondrous

described.

carefully

At Babylon, Apollonius and his friend and attendants remain 18 months ; and thon, in tho beginning of summer, proceed for India on camels, and with a guide furnished by tho Parthian king Bardanos. Gf their routo wo know only that it lay through a rich and pleasant and country, to and supply

that

tho

their

villages thoy passed wants ; for a gold

to do

hurried plate

on

their

them leading

honour camel

announced them guests of the king. Wo now hear of them enjoying tho perfumed air2 at tho foot of Caucasus, the Iliiidu-kuh, which, whilo it separates India from Media, extends by ono of its branches to tho Rod Sea3. Gf this mountain, they heard from the barbarians They wero told of Prometheus and myths like thoso of the Greek. not

the

others

to

Hercules, cavern,

it is not

J lis memory

of two

tho mountain's

place whcro Prometheus made

aud

Thcban,

tho

eagle

peaks,

; somo a stadium

apart,

a

to

pointed as

tho

was bound, and his chains, though of what

to guess4, easy too is still dear

still to

Damis hung, tho mountaineers,

from tho rocks. says, for his who sake

still pursue- tho caglo with hate; and now lay snares for it, and now with fiery javelins destroy its nest5. On tho mountain ihey find the 1 Tho Cerumns tho Viccntino, and (lerniuns;

of

in the sixth century whom Theodoric located aro known as tho "Sctto Communi,"

and who

iu the mountains arc to this day who settled at

after the Edict the French of Nantes, refugees arc still French; in Hesse then that these Krctrians Ilomhurg, is nothing should during so many years have retained their language and customs that from the day of their expulsion But is it not strange vary extraordinary. their voice has never heen heard wivo in these pages of I'liilostratus ? from Creeeo

Friodrichsdorf

so near to Babylon, the notice of incredible, they escaped that, though who the ono so signally punished, and the other so and his historians, of tho perfidious and self-exiled Branchidfe ?? carefully recorded tlu> punishment Straho I. xi. xii. c. 49. " 2 So Burnes the plain of I'cshawar, descrihea the thyme and violets perfumed sweet "a At Muehnco ii. smell was exhaled aromatic from 7?.) air," (Cahool, tho grass and plants," (ih. 101). " 3 Wilford or tho Red Sea.*' (As. the Indian ocean is called Arunoda, says lies. viii. p. 310) 4 K?i rnv dtopa o Aa/nc axnjtpOai riou nerpiov X?y?i, ov paSia rrvpfiaWuv B. 3 c. v\)jv.?U. r'Tho same tale is in Arrian and Straho. Wilford thus accounts for it : not far from Banyam is the den of Garuda, the bird-god ; he devoured some servants of Malta Deva, and this drew upon him tho resentment of that irascihle deity, whoso servants are called Pramat'haa. ? As. Res. viii. 259. and almost

Alexander


INDIAN TRAVELS OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA.

72

on people already inclined to black1, and tho men four cubits high: men On their Indus fivo cubits2. reached tho the other side tho way to the river, as they wero going along in tho bright moonshine-, an Empusa

met

them,

who

now

in

this

form

now

in that,

pursued

them

;

but Apollonius, and his companions at his instigation, railed at it, tho ouly safeguard against it, till it fled away jabbering3. As they approached tho summit of tho mountain,?the dwelling found tho road so steep of the Gods as their guido told thorn,?they that they wero obliged to go on foot. Ou tho othor side, in the country botween Caucasus and tho Cophcn4, thoy met men riding ou others on elephants, but they wore only elephant herdsmen; can a run 1000 stadia in day without rest6. Hero dromedaries, which an Indian on a dromedary rodo up to them and asked their guide whither they wero going; and when ho heard tho object of their to journey ho told tho herdsmen, who shouted for joy, called to them como near, and gave them wiuo and honey, both got from tho palm; and also slices of lion and panther flesh, just killed0. They accepted an easterly direction. everything but the flesh, aud rodo onward in courso in tho of to dine; sat down and, thoy had met Indians that observed many thoy 'Apollonius that with and drunk and rolling about, palin-wiuo7, dancing, singing, was and of orichalcum tho Indian Indian, moucy bronze?purely At

a

fountain

conversation,

and

not

stamped

like

tho Roman

and Median

coins8.

i Strabo xv. 8 Oncsicritus

1. c. ?13. Iiulica, c. vi. Arrian, Lord Oornwallis p. 55, ? 25. (Corres Frag. Hist. Alex. Didot., Sir C. Napier remarks on the great height of the Bengal Sepoys; (Life) pondence) two inches below them, but cover moro ground. Tall thinks our infantry average men therefore; but five cubits ! 3 " At the foot of the Indus and Cabool river . . . nn ignis fatuus shows itself II., p. fill. every evening.'*?Humes, * roclc mountain, the bright the Cabool. Caucasus GrAvaliAsas, Cophen, I. p. 12. "Das Alte Indien," Bohlen, " 3 . . . had of tho Knja of Bilcanccr An elderly minister ICIphinstouc says on a camel 175 miles in three days. Introduction, p. 230, I. v.) (Caubul, just conic a inarch of 110 or !)() miles Sir C. Napier mentions by his camel corps without a halt (" Life of Sir Ch. Napier," II., 4111), and has no doubt with riding camels in 411 hours.*?III., 200 miles of marching 7H. f' : "Siropayoi 5e . . . . Ivoot of a remark of Arrian's, An exaggeration probably etmv, <j(Totye/u/0(>?ioi avnov' ovroi $t ra O^ma Kpta oiriovra. ? 5) ("Indica,"xvH. else they can get (ElphiuBtone ib. llcsli and anything of Cauliristaun, e.g. "bears' d.'lO. II., 431), "they all eat llesh half raw,"?M. " " 7 Of the. Bamo mountaineers, Elphinstone: (ib.) they drink wine to excess " wine: Rclimtos the of ,/Elian, I. 61, speaks of the Indian drinking bouts; Pliny " vinum ut Indos pahnis cxprimoro vi, 112). Tbo Vishnu Piirmia of (Hist. Nat., wine from tbo Kadamba tree,? p. 571, nolo 2. s The Indian money the is: i?\?; K?fco/o//n?/m?i/, metal refined, prepared:


INDIAN TRAVELS OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA.

73

or deep, themselves Thoy crossed the Cophcn, hero not very broad in boats,

their

king.

Tmolus1 mado

on

camels

Hero

saw

thoy

and

now

On

Nysa;

its summit

a

entered it

It is cultivated,

in Lydia.

practicable.

foot,

Mount

rises

its ascent

and

thoy

subject country to a up peak,

a moderate

found

to a like

has thus been sized

teinplo

of Bacchus; this tomplo was a circular plot of ground, enclosed by it bedgorow of laurels, vines, and ivy3, all of which had been planted so Bacchus and and intertwined their branches had himself, grown by as

together

to form

a roof

and

Avails

to tho wind

impervious

and

rain.

In tho interior Bacchus had placed his own statue?in form an Indian youth, but of white stone. About and around it lay crooked knives, in gold and silver, as if ready for tho vintage. baskets, wine-vats at the foot of tho mountain hear and join in his and tho cities Ayo, and itself orgies, quakes with them. Nysa About Bacchus3, Philostratus goes on to say?whether speaking in bis

own

Hindus

or from person aro not agreed;

tho journal of Damis for tho former assert

I know that

and

not?Greeks tho Theban

Bacchus

with his bacchanals conquered and overran India, and they cite, among other proofs, a discus of Indian silver in tho treasury at Delphi, with this inscription : " Bacchus, Jove and Scmelc's son, from India to tho But of the latter, tho Indians of the Caucasus Delphian Apollo." believe

him

that

ho was

his

ho was

that

with

disciple

of

an Assyrian

Thebes tho

ami

sou

; whilo of

imitator,

the

stranger, thoso of tho

Indus', though

and ho

that called

not Indus

unacquainted and Ganges

the Theban himself

the

however declare

Bacchus son

of

was Jove,

Roman

Iu Menu's time gold and silver coins were Ktxapaypivti stamped. probably " for ho gives (viii, 131,) the name of copper, silver, and gold weights used among men:" YAo Ktnop-^/tvpipt) probably ; but when Apollonius commonly visited India wo know that money, gold and silver coins wore current, issued by tho " Indo-Greck and Indo-Scythic Baktrischc Lassen, kings,?vide passim. Konige,'* 1 to the south of Mem Nishadha, Arrian (Vishnu FurAna, probably, 107) (Exped. Alex. v. 1.) similarly connects Tmolus with Nysa 2 Laurels and finds on Meru; vines, ivy Alexander too, by implication (Arrian tho vines are so plentiful that the Expcd. v. ii. (j?). BurncM says that iu Cabool in tho year to cattle grapes aro given for three months (ut sup. ii. 131. See also unknown,

Wilson's Arlana Antiq. p. 193.) 3 Chares Alex.," p. 117, ?13) ("Hist. which speaks of an Indian god SopoaSetoc,

ono

of tho historians of Alexander, in Greek means tho wine oivowoiog, Suradevas hut the Vishnu knows of no Purana Sanscrit, maker, (von Bohlen), wine god, only of a wine goddess (vide p. 7tl). In general, however, Bacchus may be identified with Siva, and Hercules with Vishnu and Krishna. 1For the Indo-Bacchus it with hesitation; myth sec Arrian, v. 1, who receives and Straho, xv. lud. Alt. II. 1113; von Bohlen, 1, 9, who rejects it; Lassen, " I. 112 ; and Schwanbcck on II. 420, Didot. utsup., Mcgasthcncs, Frag. Hist.,"


INDIAN TKAVKLS OP APOLLONIUS OF TYANA.

71

and pretended to havo been born of hie thigh (/xupoj), from Mcros, a mountain near to Nysa. They add, that in honour of tho Indian And Uaochus, ho planted Nysa with vines brought from Thebes. celebrated his orgies; here, according to his historians, Alcxandor his lovo of while, according to the mountaineers, notwithstanding never but and of ascended the ho satisfied mountain1, antiquity, glory himself with prayer and sacrifice at its foot: ho so feared lest tho to sight of tho vines should raise iu his soldiers, long accustomed water,

a

says

caso

the

for wino and longing rock Aomus,2 though as it was ho did not visit,

and

no

at

Tho

great somewhat

of home.

pleasures distanco out

from

their

of

Dam

Nysa, He

way.

is

heard,

and was fifteen stadia however, that it had been taken by Alexander; in height; and that it was called Aomus, not becauso no bird could fly over

but

it,

a

was

there

becauso

on

chasm

its

which

summit

drew

down to it all birds, much like tho Parthenon at Athens, and several places in Phrygia and Lydia. Ou their way to tho Indus, they fell in with a lad about thirteen years old, riding an elephant and urging him on with a crooked rod, which

ho

itself

they

thrust

were

huntsmen

an anchor. On tho like elephant whom of about troop thirty elephants, and Apollonius tho sagacity admired pursuing3;

Indus

tho

into

somo

a

watched

they

displayed in crossing tho river, for tho smallest and lightest of them led the way, then followed tho mothers holding up their cubs with their

tusks

and

trunks,

whilo

tho

1lo spoke of their docility; would as he

cat had

out seen

of his among

hand tho

like

them

up

brought

coax open

him wide

with

their

their

mouths

tho

how

lovo for their keeper,

dogs,

nomads,

of

largest

their

they and,

trunks, for

rear.

to

him

thrust his head down their throats. He told too, how during tho night thoy would bowail their slavery, not with their usual roar but with

piteous

moans;

his approach ready

obedienco

stay moro

and

how,

out

their wailing; to

their

own

of

respect

for man,

they

self-command

and

tractablo

at

would

and ho referred their docility

and

nature,

than to the skill or power of their guido and rider. From tho pooplo thoy heard that elophants wero found in tho marsh, the mountain, and tho plain. According to the Indians, tho 1 that Alcxnndor to Arrian, tttsup* and II. 5, it was Mcru ascended, According to Bacchus. that he feasted and sacrificed and on Meru 3 a Stockade.?Wilson Ariana Antiqua., Awara, Awaraua, p. 192; Aornus; to Lassen, to v. Bohlcn, Indischo and ltani-garh but Benaa according according : 140, note 7. Alterthunis 3 Just in tho same locality first sees a IV. xxx. 7) Alexander (sec Arrian, and afterwards joins in an elephant hunt. troop of elephants,


INDIAN TRAVELS OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA.

75

marsh olophunt is stupid and icllo ; its teeth aro few and black, and often porous or knotted, and will not bear tho knife. Tho mountain aro

elephants

treacherous

and

savo

and,

malignant,

for

own

their

oiids, littlo <attached to man; their teeth are small, but tolerably Tho elephants of the plain are useful white, and not hard to work. animals, tractablo and imitativo; they maybe taught to writo, and to dance and jump to the sound of tho pipe; their teeth aro very long and white, and tho ivory-cutter can do with them just what bo Tho Indians uso the elephant in war; they fight from it in pleases. turrets,

large

for

enough

ton or fifteen

or

archors

and

spearmen;

they

say that it will itself join iu tho fight, holding and throwing tho spear with its trunk as with a hand. Tho Indian elephant is of a largo horse.

as much

size, It

than

larger a great

to

lives

age,

as tho Libyan and Apollonius

than

this

saw

tho Nisiean

one

in Taxiln

which had fought against Alexander about 350 years before, and which Alexander had honoured with tho namo of Ajax. On its tusks weio golden bracelets, with this inscription: "Ajax to tho sun, from Jovo's

Alexander, with

son."

and

unguents, When about

The

ornament

to cross

tho

wero accustomed peoplo it with garlands1. their Indus, Babylonian

to anoint

guide,

it

was

who

unacquainted with the river, presented to tho Satrap of tho Indus a letter from Bardancs. And tho Satrap, out of regard to the king, though selves,

no ollieor boats

for

of

his,

their

wroto to his sovereign, and

truly Where

divino they

crossed,

tho

takes its riso in tho Caucasus3; (fieifw

avroOiv)

than

any

and

a

with

guido

his own barge to tho Hydraotis.

for

them

He

also

to beg him that, in his treatment of this Greek, ho would

man,

them

supplied

camels,

other

emulate Indus

was

tho generosity stadia forty

of Bardancs. in breadth3.

and, from its very fountain, river

in Asia4.

In

its courso

It

is larger it receives

1 as the elephant he Pliny (viii. v.) describes crossing rivers in the same way; " of their wonderful minis self-respect, pudor,*' and of one called Ajax; c. 14 and 15) of their lo Arrian(lndica, grief at being captured, of their attachment their love of music, and thoir their keepers, though to but 2?'0 long life extending 500 years.?Strabo, yi'.liun xv.); years'(Onesicritus gives them .'100, and sometimes (xiii. ?0), aud Pliny (viii.), stato that they earry three warriors only, and are much Tho division into marsh I suspect, is and plain, &c., larger than tho African. from .luba. 2 Ctesias is 40 stadia whcro narrowest. Sec Lassen, (5R ?) snys tho Indus ul supra, II. 6:J7. who accounts for Ctesias* (bis reasons do not apply exaggeration to Dainis), and Wilson's Notes on the Iiidiea of Ctesias, who excuses it (p. VI). a " .... in jugo Caucus! montis Indus .... effusus .... undeviginti accipit ainucs .... latior quinquarjinla Hist. Nat., vi. 2.3. nusquum stadiis."?Pliny 4 So so Ibn Jlatuta : "The Sciudo is the greatest river in the world, Ctesias, aud overllows during the hot weather just as the Nile docs; and at this time they speaks


INDIAN TRAVELS OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA.

76

many navigable rivers. Like tho Nilo it overflows tho country, and deposits a mud ; and thus, as in Egypt, prepares tho land for tho It abounds, liko the Nile, with sea-horses and croco husbandman. as themselves witnessed in crossing it (Kopi(optvoi 6Vbia rov diles1, they too and it tho same flowers. In India the winter is Ivhov); produces summer the but tho heat, providentially, is moderated warm, stifling; The rains. told season for natives that tho when him, by frequent the rise of the river was at hand, tho king sacrifices on its banks black bulls and horses (black, among thorn, becauso of their com plexion being tho nobler colour), and, after tbe sacrifice, throws into a

river

tho

themselves abundant

but

not; or

harvest,

a

liko

measure,

gold know

for

com

measure,?why,

as

probably, Apollonius such a moderate2 rise

of

tho

peoplo for an conjectured, tho river as would

benefit tho land. Tho Indus passed, their new guide led them straight to Taxila, whero was tho palaco of tho Indian king. Tho peoplo now woro cotton, tho produco of tho country, and sandals made of the fibro of tho papyrus3 (yno&tjpnra(3v(3\ov)} and a leather cap when it rained. The

wero

classes

better

byssus

on a

grows

like the willow; Taxila4 ami

was

was

liko

it is exported the of

tho residenco

which

Apollonius,

colour iu his dress, was much pleased.

tree,

about

a stufT with

in byssus,

clad

who a fleeted a yellowish

size a

tho

poplar

into Egypt of Ninovoh, who

sovoreign

in

its

but

stem,

This

with

leaves

for sacred uses. walled ruled

a Greek

liko over

what

of

city, old was

Just outside tho Avails5was a tcmplo of near the kingdom of Porus. a hundred feet, of porphyry6 (X?0ovKoyvuXeorou),and in it a shrino, sow the land.'*

Burnes,

I think, shows

that

it carries

a greater

body of water

than

tho Ganges. 1 lCratosthcncs

as tho Nile, tho sea-horse. it tho same animals except gives the sea-horse also; Strabo, xv. 1, 13. Oncsicritus 2 Sir C. a fever which prostrated his army and the natives, attributed Napier riso of the Indus.?Quarterly to an extraordinary ltevicw, Oct. 1858, j>. 401). 3 Arrian*s dress is of cotton, their sandals of leather;" "Their but Indica: II. JI7. the Egyptian iWotfmim fivfiXiva, Herodotus priests gives 4Wilford and its ruins; Wilson iden (As. lies. viii. 1149), speaks of Tacshaila iu of the Hindus between the Indus and Hydaspes, tifies Tuxila with Taksha-sila l!)o\ Arrian its sizo and wealth celebrates Ant., the vicinity of Manikyala.?Ar. V. II c. Hxped. Alex. tho Indus and the Hydaspes. the largest city between * Ham of the Hindus, and p. 2,) of tho temples of Vishnu Knz, (Architecture the village. (I. 151) Siva, eays, that the latter should be without HioucmThsang and speaks of a stupa and convent outside the walls, built by Asoka. describes Taxila, 6 Tho described is 100 feet iu circuni* by Elphinstone, tope of Manikyala, (II. 514 and 1151) speaks of tbo fcrence, and 10 feet high (Ari. Ant. .'II). Lassen influence

of Greek

art

on

Indian

architecture;

but

adds,

that

tho Indians

built


INDIAN TRAVELS OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA. small,

size

the

considering

still very beautiful. representing tho elephants, a mosaic1 of orichalcum, spears,

horses,

and

and and

gold, in iron

but

columns,

hung pictures on copper

Alexander

soldiers,

swords

its many

and

temple

of

silver,

and

javelins,

all worked

tho

tho shrino wero

feats

tho

tablets,

tablets

tho

of

Round

7/

tinted ; but

copper tho

several

theso

In

Porus. were

armour,

in

portrayed

;

xaA*a>) (^Aaw wero metals

into one another with so nice a gradation of tints, that the

of of expression? in correctness drawing, vivacity they formed, one of tho of and truthfulness of perspective2, reminded productions too of noblo tho told and Zcuxis, Euphranor. Polygnotus Thoy of Porus, character not of Alexander for it was tho death till after pictures

that ho placed thorn iu tho temple,?and as

Alexander

a

and

conqueror,

this, though they represented as

himself

conquered

and

wounded,

and receiving from Alexander the kingdom of India. In this templo they wait until the king can bo apprised of their whiles away Apollonius of which in the course

arrival. painting,

tho he

time

a

with

remarks

that

conversation

upon neces

is not

colour

sary to a picture; that an Indian drawn in chalk would be known as an Indian, and black of colour, by his somewhat flat nose, his crisp hair, bis largo jaws, and wild eyes3. Whilo they are thus talking, a and

messenger

from

arrive

interpreter

tho

kiug,

with

a

for

permit

them to enter tho city, and to stay in it threo days, beyond which no

time

are

strangers

allowed

in Taxila.

They ore taken to tho palace. narrow the

streets,

streets,

woll-urranged, tho houses seemed

and of

They found the city divided

them of Athens. reminding one all but they only story,

by

From had

an

underground floor4. They saw tho Temple of tho Sun, and in it statues of Alexander

and

of red marble, of pearls5,

having,

Porus,

in gold,

but glittering as

is usual

with with

and

silver,

gold; tho

copper;

its walls

were

tho imago of tho god was

barbarians

in sacred

things,

a

symbolical meaning. with

brick. have faced their buildings with stone ; and the They may, however, or red marble, used in tho XtOoij Koy\v\x(iro<j may have been of that porphyry, tombs at Tattah.?Life iv. .'18. of Sir C. Napier, 1 Lassen were skilled that the Hindus (5UI-4) states, ou Singhalese authority, and (II. 420-7) he describes a casket tho figures on which he supposes in mosaics; were of a mosaic of precious stones. 2 To f uo-x'ni', to tfinvovv, icai to tiatxnv Tt, Kal i%i\ov. 3 note 4, p. 100, Indica vi., and compare with it Vishnu Arrinn, Purana, races of India. where is a description of the barbarous 1 ttt sup. 514. The underground Lassen, says, even the poor floor, Elphinstone have at Pcshawur.?Caubul, Introduc, p. 74. r>" 1c soled la face rouge . . ? . scs membres On rcprcscnte

sont

prononce^,

il


INDIAN TRAVELS OF APOLLONIUS OP TYANA.

78

The palace was distinguished by no extraordinary magnificence, aud was just like the house of any citizen of the better class. Thoro wero no sentinels or body guards, aud but fow servants about, and to talk with tho perhaps threo or four persons who were waiting samo was The in the observable courts, halls, king. simplicity waiting and inner rooms ; and it pleased Apollonius moro than all the pomp of Babylon. When admitted to tho king's presence, -Apol lonius, through tho interpreter, addressed tho king as it philosopher, aud complimented him on his moderation. Tho king, Phraotcs, in said

answer,

he was

that

and

friends,

from

them

his othor

and

few,

in doing good to his

he employed his wealth

in subsidizing the barbarians, or themselves ravaging, allowing

wore

his wants

becauso

modcrato

that as ho was wealthy,

to

prevent to ravage

neighbours, barbarians

his territories. Here ono of his courtiers offered to crown him with a jewelled mitre, but ho refused it, as well because all pomp was hateful to him,

as because

of Apollonius's

presence.

now

Apollonius

enquired

into his modo of life. The king told him that he drank but little wine, as much as ho usually poured out iu libation to tho sun ; that ho

for

hunted

and

exercise1,

gavo

himself, he lived on vegetables the With

palm, this

and

fruits

other of

account

his

he

what

away

for

that,

killed;

and herbs, and tho head and fruit of

which

ho

kingly

tastes

with

cultivated and

own

his

hands.2

Apollonius

occupations

was delighted, and he frequently looked at Damis. Thoy then talked a to about tho road the timo Brahinans; and wlton they long together had done, the king ordered the Babylonian guide to bo treated with the hospitality wont to be shown to travellers from Babylon, and the satrap guide to bo sent back homo with tho usual travelling allowance; and then taking Apollouius by the baud, and ordering the interpreter to leave them, he asked him, in Greek, to receive him, tho lung, as a table companion. Apollonius, surprised, enquired why ho had not " ?'I from first. the Greek Because," answered the king, spoken would not seem bold, or to forget that I am, after all, only a barbarian; tako in my tho plcasuro and but your kindness, you no 1 can of mo, and conceal tho better longer got

And how I became you

at

large."

myself

front

thus acquainted with Greek I will presently

"But

why,"

inviting me, did you beg me

ngain

asked

to invito you

of

"Becauso,"

lui descend consider

you.

show

"instead

Apollonius,

to dinner?"

a bcs orcilles. Un collier de pcrlcs des pendants ? sur Flnde, Mdm. p. 121. Reinaud, poitrine.'1" let tho king Drinking, dice, women nud hunting, vii. 50. vices."?Menu, pernicious 11$. Arrian, Indica, xi. c, porfo

havo

conversation,

du cou sur

as the four most

In


INDIAN TRAVELS OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA. said tho king, " I look on you abovo him

to

as tho better man ; for wisdom

(ro yap fiaaikiKoncpov royalty where he avus tho placo

a garden,

a stadium

about

79

aocjna

So

saying, This bathe.2

ey**1). to

accustomed

a swimming

long, with

is led

ho

was

of cold

bath

on each of it, and water in the middle sido an exercising running and the javelin, the discus Greek Hero bo practised fashion3, ground. himself tho water, and and exercised into tired, jumped then, when

with swimming. After tho bath they went to dinner, crowned with as is usual with the Indians when they feast in the king's garlands4, palace.

Of tho dinner Damis has given a detailed account. The king, and about five of his family with him, lay on a low couch ; the other on

sat

guests

stools.

Tho

was

table

liko

an

as

about

altar,

as a

high

man's knee ; it was in tho middlo of tho room, round, and as largo as would bo a circlo formed by thirty people with joined hands up

standing myrtlo

from

It was

to dance, which

tho

over

strewed

Indians

prepare

with

their

and

laurel,

a'sort was

and

unguents,

of set

out with fish and birds, tho carcases of lions and goats and sows, and with tiger loins5?tho only part of tho tiger they cat, and this because thoy Each

guest,

at

that

suppose

as a bit

it raises

its birth

ho wanted

anything, off

sun. rising the table; to his returned

to its fore-paws went and up got

the

to

a slice of that, he with his meat. bread eating always ono each had had enough, bowls, gold and silver largo wero and from theso in, guests, brought they drank, and

seat

liko

taking ami ato

his

cattle.

which

In

required at tho up, and over heels whilo

of

this,

cutting

When

till,

tho meanwhile, skill

considerable same in tho

time air,

a

they and

wore courage:

stooping by various

amused a

leaped boy upward, in such a way but that

for

enough

javelin and ho

was

down feats thrown

tumbled

passed

javolin as it fell, and Avith the certainty of being wounded

they ten

bend over

ihe

if he did

1 Tho old Stoic maxim : " Solus sapiens rex." Olearius in Philost. 2 Iiioucn I. tho nice cleanliness of tho Indians, hut 7L describes 7<), Thsang, before meat to the bands. confines tho washing " 3 Menu of the kingly duties: consulted with his ministers .... Having exercise a and having bathed, used let the king enter at warrior, having becoming noon his private for the purpose of taking food" Hut (vii. 210). apartments Strabo (xv. I. 51) says, the Indians use friction rather than gymnastic exercises. 4 " Lo roi et sen ministrcs orncut leurs totes do guirlandes do flours."?Hioiien p. 70, I. v. Thsang, 5 better describes the Indians, at least he describes Strabo, quoting Nearebus, them as we at this day find them : /*?/?**y"p voguvc. tivat irnWag Sta rtjr Xiror/;r? r))(j (Wom/e Kdi T))v ainviav oiw%ai> po^yr/ji', rice (xv. 1, 45), their food principally curry or porridge

???511.


INDIANTUAVELSOF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA.

SO

not properly and

round,

timo his somersault; tho

tested

guests

its

indeed tho weapon

was

man

also

One

sharpness.

carried so

was

sure of his aim, that he set up his own son against a board, and then threw darts at the board, so aiming them that, fixed in tho board, they

traced

out

son's

his

outlino1.

Damis and tho others wero much amused with theso entertain ments; but Apollonius, who was at tho king's table, paid littlo attention to them; and, turning to tho King, asked him, how ho camo to know Tho king, smiling, Greek, and whero ho acquired his philosophy. " a In old times into Avhon answered, port, tho people used to ship put ask

its crew

if

wrere

they

you

question

Greeks

pirates2,

was

piracy

then

is God's most precious gift

now, though philosophy put

to a

even

stranger,

of

so

common.

toman, tho

lowest

But

tho first rabble,

is 'Are you a philosopher?' And in very truth with you Greeks, I speak not of you, Apollonius, is much tho same us philosophy an ill-fitting garment for it to who is liko the it, many piracy, profess which they havo stolen, and in which they strut about awkwardly, And liko thieves, on whom tho fear trailing it on tho ground. of justice presses, they hurry to enjoy the present hour, and givo to themselves up gluttony, for while laws wonder, your no of tho authors cognizance

bis

one

to

inquire

study into

it, avo first his for

progenitors,

three

no

and

effeminacy; bad money,

tako

they

Here,

philosophy.

is a high honour, and beforo wo allow sond

charactor

of

of a falso

uttcrers

and

on the other hand, philosophy any who

and

debauchery, coiners punish

him

and

generations,

to

tho

parentage. have

homo

of

been

the

must

Ho

Brahmans, that sIicav

without

stain

or

reproach, and that he himself is of pure morals and of a retentive intellect. Tho character of his progenitors," the king wont on to say, "if of living men, was ascertained from Avitnesscs; and if of dead, avus

known

from

the

public

records3.

For

avIicu

an

Indian

died,

a

legally appointed oflicor repaired to his house, and inquired into, and set down in Avritiug his modo of life, and truly, under tho penalty of being declared incapablo of holding any public office. As to tho youth himself, they judged him worthy or othcrwiso from his oyes, cyc-broAvs, aud cheeks, which as in a mirror reflect tho mind and disposition. 1 A Chinese tho same feat iu London. juggler lately performed 2 Allusion to Thncydides, I. 3 Strabo of the Indian city rcdiles says a part took note of tho births and deaths, tiu> m that the birth or death of good or bad meii may be known s /u; aQavuc Kal xetP0VC- yovat Ka\ Oavaroi from Megastheiics, Kptiroi'tc (xv. 1, 51); Frag. II. p. 431, ? 37, ami consult Bardcsanestoa* iu account of the ^apavmoi Hist., 1. iv. c. 17 of Porphyry dc Abstinent!A.


INDIAN TRAVELS OF APOLLONIUS OP TYANA.

81

The king then told how his father, the son of a king, had been two left very young an orphan; and how during his minority of

his

relatives

and

them,

to

according

so little

with

regard them

slow

to as

Indian

custom

acted

as

were

they

to

sacrificing

the

but

regents,

law, that some nobles conspired

against

Indus,

aud

on this his father, then sixteen seized upon the government;?how a greater of fled tho to years age, king beyond tho Hydaspes, king than himself, who received him kindly, and offered either to adopt him, or to replace him on his throno; and how, declining and how the this offer, ho requested to bo sent to tho Brahmans; in he married the daughter timo Brahmans educated him ; and how seven with her and of tho Hydaspian received villages as king, pin-money

(vvi)v),

(ch

and

had

issue

one

Phraotes.

son,?himself,

Phraotcs told of himself, that ho was educated by his father in tho Greek fashion till the ago of twelve; that ho was then sent to tho " Brahmans, and treated by them as a son, for he observed, They especially lovo thoso who know and speak Greek, as akin to them in mind and disposition;" that his parents died; and that in his nine teenth year, just as, by tho advico of tho Brahmans, ho was beginning to

tako

into

his

own

tho management

hands

of

his

ho was

estates,

deprived of them by tho king, his uncle; and was supported with four servants by willing contributions from his mother's freedmen And

(an \tvOcpu)v).

now,

as

he

was

ono

day

reading

tho

cliche, ho hears from a friend of his father's, that if ho will ho may Tho

recover

tragedy

the

ho was

of

kingdom reading

ho

but ho must family, as an omen, and accepts his

be goes

Hera

return, quick. ou to

?" say : When I crossed tho Hydraotis, I heard that, of tho usurpers, one was already dead, and tho other besieged in this very palace; so I hurried on, proclaiming to tho villages I passed through who I was, and what wero my rights : and tho people received me gladly; and declaring I was tho very picturo of my father and grandfather, they with swords and bows, and our of them armed me, many accompanied wo this reached tho inhabi and when increased numbers ; city, daily

tants, with torches lit at tho altar of the Sun, and singing tho praises of my father and grandfather, came out and wolcomed me, and brought me hither. But they built up tho drone within, though I begged a so to him death." cruel to not them put Apollonius then enquired whether tho Sophoi of Alexander and The king told him they were theso Brahmans wero tho same people. wero tho Alexander's that Oxydrnca)1, a free and warliko not; Sophoi 1 identifies them with Burncs them with the Malli. Straho, xv. I. 33, connects the people of Ooch, tho Malli with those of Mooltan.?Ut sup. I., p. 09. G VOL. XVII.


82

INDIAN TRAVELS OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA.

that tho race, but rather dabblers in philosophy than philosophers1; Brahman country lay between tho Hypbasis and tho Ganges; and that Alexander iieA-cr iiiA'adcd it?not through fear, but dissuaded by tbe appearance of tho sacrificial victims. " A ud though," said Phraotcs, " it is true ho might havo crossed the Hypbasis and occupied tho neigh bouring lands, yet tho stronghold of the Brahman ho never could havo taken?

not

no,

Achilles.

though theso

For

man

every sacred

in his

and

had

army

men

God-loved

an

been would

or an

Ajax havo

driven

him back?not Avith human weapons, but with thunders and light and tempests, as they had routed tho Egyptian Hercules and nings, who Bacchus, thought with united arms to have stormed their fort; and so routed them, that Hercules it is said threw away bis golden shield,

because

which,

of

its

renown

owner's

own

its

and

emboss

ments2, they then set up as an offering in their temple/' While thoy wero thus conversing, music and a song wero introduced, on which Apollonius enquired what the festal procession meant. Tho king explained to him that itwas usual with tho Indians to sing to tho king, beforo ho retired to rest, songs of good counsel, wishing him and

good

dreams,

wise

counsellor

The

next

that

morning,

the king displays rate-?tho

king

ho may

riso

for his people9.

in

tho

And

discourses

Apollonius

upon

his knoAvledgo of Greek

to transact

tho

business

a

morning

good

man

so talking, they went

of

sleep

legends. his

kingdom

and

and

a

to bed.

dreams,

and

They then sepa and

to decide

some faAv-suits?Apollonius to oiler his prayers to the Sun. When they tells the that tho stato of the victims had meet, king Apollonius again not permitted the Court to sit on that day, and ho lays before him a case

in dispute?ono

of

treasure

troA'O,

and

in

land

Avhich

has

just

changed hands, tho buyer and seller both claiming tho treasure. Tho king is in much perplexity, and states tho reasons on both sides; and the suit might havo been drawn out to tho same length, and bcconio us celebrated as that of tho ass and shadoAVat Abdorn, hail not Apol Ho inquires into tho life and character lonius conio to his assistance. of tho litigants; finds that tho seller is a bad, and the purchaser a good man : and to the last thcrcforo awards tho treasure. When tho thrco days of their sojourn havo expired, and tho king 1 Social' 2 These

oiittv xpi;<rroi> dboraq.?Philost. de ptraxtiQioaoOai, II. c. 33. tho king goes on to say, Hercules embossments represented, setting up and driving back tho ocean?proof, he assorts, that it was tbo his pillars at Gadcs, who was at Gadcs. and not tho Thcban, Hercules Kgyptiau, 3 the vices tho king is to shun, names dancing aud instrumental Menu, among " advises that, music in tho inmost recesses of his mansion, (vii. 47), but afterwards 224-5 j strains, ho should take rest early."?vii. by musical having been recreated ix. p. 7'?. see, however, As. Res.,


INDIAN TttAVKLS OP APOLLONIUS OF TYANA.

63

loams that their camels from Babylon aro worn out, ho orders that of his white camels1 on the Indus, four shall bo sent to Bardanes, and four others given to Apollonius with provisions, and a guide to tho Ho offers him besides gold and jewels and linen gar Brahmans. ments ; but Apollonius accepts only tho linen garments, and this, becauso they are like the old genuine Attic cloak, and ono jewel, of

becauso for

and divine mystic to this effect:?"Tho

its

larchas2,

larchas

men

tho wise

and

him,

a

also to

Phraotcs

King

with

receives

He

properties.

letter

Master

tho

a

greeting:?Apollonius,

very

wise man, thinks you wiser than himself, and has travelled hither to learn your doctrine. Send him back knowing all you know. Your lessons will not bo lost, for ho speaks better, and has a better memory than any man I ever knew. Shew him, Father larchas, the throno on which I sat when you gave me the kingdom. His followers are worthy of all praise, if only for submitting to such a man. Farewell." leave

They

Taxi

a

there

la, and

camo

two

upon Poms

and

tho

Apollo;" halted."

Alexander

may

down,

alternate

a

up ridges

its very of rock

which render its navigation the

later,

tho pcoplo tho brido sidered 1 3

largest obtain and

complete,

Elphinutonc iVobahly,

Providenco

from

stadia

the

through the

with

source, impede

impossible.

and

tho

river,

this

without

to Venus.

Olympian

Indian

Sun,

and

inscription:?"Here

Philostratus pillar the return homeward and

and

Minerva and

of our European rivers. an unguent with which bridegroom, or pleasing

on Alexander, of submission.

their way,

they pursued

pillar

this

ill joy at tho Hyphasis to

was attitude

Thirty

in a

of Alexander

little farther on, they

A

in an

Cabiri

bronze

And

by tho Indians to In roforenco sail

tho

to

and

raised

vessels

place

had built there "To Father Amnion

Sauio-Thracian

the

statue

of which

other

Hyphasis.

Hercules;

and

Brother

one

tho

saluting,

to

nations4,

;

2

on

arches,

ono

passed tho Hydraotis3,

Brother

Jovo

tho

reach

journey,

to a

pediment

saw tho altars Alexander

they

days'

like that on tho Issus.

other

; the

Having different

the

arch,

triumphal

four-horse chariot, other

two

after

is said to havo fought with Por us ; and they saw

where Alexander

its marvels, iu a plain its course,

conjectures of Alexander. wo

are

; but and

told that,

cause

was

that lower eddies

It is about as broad as the From

the

trees

on

marriage-guests no which marriage To Venus, indeed,

its banks besprinkle is con its groves

(ut supra, I. 40) speaks of white camels as rare. u corruption from Rac'hyas.?As. ix. 41. Res., suggests Wilford, Sanskrit in Strabo llyarotis, Iravati; Hypbasis, Vipasa.?Vishnu

Ilydraotis, Purana, p. 1111. 4 Strabo gives

their number

as nine.?xv,

I. 3, 33.

G 2


INDIAN TRAVELS OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA.

84 aro

as

dedicated,

also

its

fish,

confinod

ono

to

tho

sort,

so

peacock,

called from their cerulean crest, their spotted scales, and golden tails, Avhich they can open out at pleasure. In this river is also found a sort of white worm, the property of the king, which ismelted into an oil so inflammable, that nothing but glass Avill hold it. This oil is used in sieges, and when throAvn on tho battlements, it burns so fiercely, that its fire, so far as yot knoAvn, is inextinguishable1. In

the marshes,

Avild

aro

asses

Avith a horn

caught,

on

fore

their

heads2, with which they fight, bull-fashion! From this horn is made a cup, of such virtue that if any ono drinks out of it, ho need for that fear

day

no

nor

sickness,

nor

wounds,

fire,

nor

It

poison.

is

tho

to himself tho right of hunting tho ass. king's, avIio also saAV tho animal, and admired it; but AvhcnDamis asked Apollonius him if he could believe all that avus said of the virtue of tho cup, ho reserves

" Yes,

answered,

when

I

see

any

Indian

king

immortal."

Hero they met with a woman black to her breasts, Avhito from her breasts downwards. Sho was sacred to the Indian Vonus, and to this women are sacred from their birth, as Apis among tho goddess piebald Thence

Egyptians.

down plants, vine your

towards

they

crossed

tho Red Sea;

that

part

of Caucasus

it Avns full of all

Avhich

stretches

sorts of aromatic

a shrub very liko a young cinnamon8, produced so if to hold that it iu and you goats, grateful (vcoiff kXijpaat), liko after Avhiuo will and follow you hands, dogs. you, they Tho

Ou tbe dills pepper-trees.

headlands

grow the tall and all other sorts of frankincense, The

pepper-tree

resembles

tho Xyvos

both

iu its

and leaves

and the clustered form of its fruit. It groAvs on precipices inaccessible to man, but frequented by apes, which, as they gather for them tho arms and pepper-fruit, tho Indians mako much of, and protect with tho in for for will wait lion the lio apo, and eat dogs against tho lion; its flesh as medicine when ho is sick, and as food when he is old and no longer able to bunt the stag and wild boar. Tho popper harvest is under tho cliffs whero tho peppers gathered in this Avny:?Directly small tho trenches, into Avhich they throw as some grow, people dig 1This

worm it in tho and described but he places is mentioned by Ctesiae, Ctcs. Ed. Didot, 27, p. 05. Indus.?Frng. c This ass and its horn, with somo slight ditTeronco, aro also hi Ctesias (ib., ' sees in this borncd ass two animals rolled into one,*' thegorkhar, p. 25). Wilson or wild

and the rhinoceros, whoso horn bus horsn, found north of the Hiudu-Koh, on Ctesias, as an antidote.?Notes 03 to this day, in the East, a high reputation and If). * it is indigenous^to I believe Strabo, xv. I. 22, but iu the south of India. aud is not found in India at all. Ceylon,


INDIAN TRAVELS OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA.

85

thing worthless tho fruit of tho neighbouring trees1. The monkeys from tho heights Avatch them, and as soon as it is night, begin like to tear

them,

the

clustered

from

fruits

the

and

pepper,

them

liko

to

In tho morning tho peoplo come back and fling it into tho trenches. carry off tho pepper, which they thus obtain without any labour. tho other

On

sido

of

avus a

tho mountain

largo

plain?tho

largest

in India, being fifteen days'journey to the Ganges, and eighteen days' to the Red Sea. It Avas intersected with dykes running in different and

directions,

tho

with

communicating

and

Ganges,

tho

serving

double purpose of landmarks and canals for irrigation. The laud here is tho best in India, black and very productive; its wheat-stalks aro its like reeds2, and its beans three times as largo as the Egyptian; sesame

and

thoso

are

millet

for

which

nuts,

also their

extraordinarily and size rarity

often found as offerings in Greek hoAvever,

are

able

gathered A opov rw anorpvyav.)

like small, so soon as

bouquet

uvOoapiiis

too,

Here, a

as

sort

of

groAv Avonder

The grapes of tho country,

temples.

tho Lydian

fine. are,

and with and Maonian, be opnfoovs.nonpovs

(r?? is also tree

hero

found

like

an

agree r< Km

the

laurel

but Avitha fruit liko a largo pomegranate, within the husk of which is an applo of tho colour of a fine hyacinth, and tho very best flavoured fruit

thoy

ever

ato3.

camo

As

thoy its marshes,

India,

down

tho

plains,

mountain, and

theso they toll us that tho marsh-dragon without

and

SpaKaivais

a o/ioiot).

the

crest; Its

back

male

they

very is black,

a

Avitnessed aro

mountains

full

of

dragon-hunt. dragons4.

Of

is thirty cubits long, sluggish, liko and

tho

female

it has

fewer

uvm (oXV scales

too; than

1 Strabo

tho people a similar trick, by means of which (ib., ? 29) describes in tho text, Waterton has With tho monkeys. regard to that described never throws, only lets fall. that tbo monkey observed, 2 tells only of saiubbills, this bank of the Hyphasis, Elphinstone, describing catch

of rue. Of tho right bank, little bushes and hard clay, and tufts of grass, mid " Thcro were so many throughout largo and deep watercourses however, he says: the journey, that, judging from them alone, tho country must be highly cultivated." " : The crops arc good, aud the wheat of Balkh ?Introd. 15urnes, too, observes as and do not present the stunted stubble of India." high as in England, II., 200. such as it might bo described by those wbo this bo tho purplo mangostecn, only knew of it from hearsay ? 4 Almost all that is here said of serpents will be found in Pliny (viii., II, 13); is noticed by Oncsi their size, though scarcely so largo as those of Philostratus, ; tbeir benrd.s by eritus nud Ncarcbus p. 00 and 10,*>,Didot.) (Prg. Hist. Alex., ./Elian (xi., c. 20); the beard and tbo stono in their heads, with some difference from Poscidippu?,?CliiL, vii., 0511, 009 ; (tin; btoncs arc avroyXvjuu,) by Tzetzes tho nutgic power of their eyes by Lucnn (vii. 0'?7)?

stalks ?

grow

Utsup., 3 Can


INDIAN TRAVELS OF APOLLONIUS OP TYANA.

Sti

the other kinds. Homer, avIiou ho speaks of tho dragon at tho fount in Aulis as of blood-red back, describes tho marsh-dragon hotter than the

other

you

Avill The

inar<h

who

poets,

find

hardly

any

and

plain kind.

tho Nemaian

make

marsh-dragon. aro

hill-dragons movo along Thoy

and

to,

superior

more

than

swiftly

for

crested;

dragon

tho

crested

tho than, largor swiftest rivers,

and nothing can cscapo them. They aro crested; ami though in the young tho crest is small (pirpiov), avIich they aro full-grown, it a

to

reaches serrated

backs,

height. conspicuous and their boarded;

aro

They necks

a

of

fiery and erect,

aro

colour, thoir

Avith scales

shine liko silver. Tho pupils of their eyes aro a fiory stono of wonder ful and mystic properties. They aro hunted for the sake of their eyes, skin, and teeth. A dragon of this kind will sometimes attack an " elephant; both then porish, and aro a find'* for the huntsmen. They resemble tho largest fish, but aro moro litho and active; their teeth are

as

hard

those

of

tho

Avhalo.

The mountain dragons aro largor than those of tho plain, and with a fiercer look; their scales are golden, their beard too, which hangs in clusters; crests

they glide throw out a

on light

the

earth

than

brighter

as of

a sound

with

that

of

a

their

brass; torch.

They

fiery over

power tho elephant, but becoino tbcmsolves tho prey of tho Indian. They aro killed in this fashion :?tho Indians spread out before tho sorpent's hiding-place a scarlet carpet, Avith golden characters which, Avhcii the dragon rests his head upon them, charm him to sleep. Thoy then, with incantations1, call him out of his hole; and, if everything goes Avell?for often he gets tho hotter of them and thoir "grainary" ?as soon as, with outstretched neck, ho is lulled in magic sleep, they rush on him with hatchets and cutoff his head, and extract from it stones,

bright-coloured

flashiug

with

every

huo,

and

of

poAvcrs

avoii

derful as those of Gygos' ring. Theso dragons aro also found in tho mountains bordering tho Red Sea. They aro said to live an incrcdiblo age, but of this nothing certain is knoAvn. At tho foot of tho mountain was situated Paraka, a vory largo Its inhabitants aro, from thoir youth, trained to hunt tho city. heads of dragons. Thoy dragon, and it is full of thcir*trophics?tho cat

the hearts

himself2,

and

livers,

as

by

this moans,

as was

proved

by Apollonius

they acquire a knoAvlodge of tho languago and thoughts of

animals. 1The

snake charmer still exists in India, flochart (Miorozo., in ancient authors bearing ou the subject. gives all the passages e At his knowledge Epheaus (L. iv., c. 3), whcro he displayed of sparrows.

cvi.

III.,

II. v.)

of tho languago


INDIAN TRAVELS OF APOLLONIUS Otf TYANA.

thorn

keep

our

onwards,

Proceeding for

thoir

Thence,

milk2, a

after

travellers

hear

see a herd of white

pipo1, and presently

four

days'

very

shepherd's

Tho Indians

nourishing. fortile and

a

through

journey

a

of

stags grazing.

is considered

which

sound

tho

87

well

cultivated country, they approached tho stronghold of the Sophoi; and liow thoir guido ordered his camel to kneel, and leapt down, sweating with fear. Then Apollonius knew whero they were, and laughed at tho Indian, and bade him again mount his camel. Tho fact is, tho near neighbourhood of the Sophoi frightened him; and, indeed, tho pcoplo fear them moro than tho king; for the king as ho would

them

consults advico

aud

an

and

oracle,

docs

their

without

nothing

concurrence3.

When thoy had reached a village, not tho eighth of a mile from tho hill of tho Sophoi, and were preparing to put up there, they a man young Indian thoy had his brows, much

perceived blackest between

yet such

seen,

their

as

which,

them.

a

spot, the

bright

as Monon,

holding

fast,

was

Ho

had iu his youth. of

symbolical

with

a mark

child of tho sophist Herod, anchor

towards

running

very

crescent-shaped, foster Ethiopian

bore a golden

He

tho

tho

Indians

havo

made

caducous.

When

tho messenger

ho

when

all

at Damis,

said,

Apollonius but Apollonius, men wo "Tho

by who,

name, now como

have

in Greek,

Apollonius

thoy wero not much

addressed

astonishment,

addressed

up

coming

as the villagers also spoko Greek,

wero

surprised; struck

they full of confidence, aro wise to visit

but with

looking, indeed;

they know the future:" and then turningjto tho Indian, ho asked him what he should do, for ho wished to converse with tho Sophoi imme you,

you

justas

"

man

Tho

diately.

to Apollonius

answered, so aro, they

Leave

(avroi)

qui to Pythagorean,

your request."

pcoplo This

and he followed

here, "they"

but

come seemed

tho messenger

rejoicing. Tho lull of tho Sophoi4 roso sheer up from tho plain, and was It was besides fortified by about as high as the Acropolis at Athens. a

belt

goodly

hoofs,

and

of

beards,

rock, and

on which faces,

traco the of impressions might what sconicd of falling tho backs

you and

1 Strabo

besides cymbals, instruments (ut sup.,c. 22) says, they have no musical drums, and KporuXm (rattles, castanets ?). 2 " The milk of any forest boast, oxecpttho butfalo, must be carefully shunned." v. 11. ?Menu, 3 Vide Hist. and Bardesanes on Frag. IL, 43H, on a fragment of MonuMhones In Porphyry, de Abstinent., Brahmans and SumaneeaiiH L. iv., 17 c., ad calcem. 1Ctesias tells of a sacred place in an uninhabited part of the country, which the

Imlians

honour

from tho Surdian

in the name of tho sun and the moon; it is fifteen days* journey uonvr ri/c,Sapvovc,, ? 8, p. 81.

mountains?too


INDIAN TRAVELS OP APOLLONIUS OP TYANA.

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men. And they heard that when Bacchus and Hercules attempted tho place, Bacchus ordered his Pans, ns able to shako it to its founda tion (havovs rrpbsrov aaapov), to storm it, but thunderstruck by tho Sophoi, they fell headlong ono upon the other, and so loft theso marks upon the stones. They said also, that about and around this hill a cloud hung within which the Sophoi dwell, visiblo and invisible at will, but that there wero no gates to their stronghold, so that ono could not call it cither cnclosod or open. Apollonius and his guido ascended tho hill ou tho south side. Ho saw a well four fathoms deep, and over its mouth a dark vapour rising1 with tho heat, aud giving out at midday all tho colours of Ho was told that hero tho subsoil was cinnabar tho rainbow. ytj), and that the water of tho well was sacred, and novcr (o*ni>8fi/m\o'i/ and that all the pcoplo about sworo by it. Near this was a used, which

crater,

a

out

threw

lead-coloured

smell

flamo without

or

smoko,

and which bubbled up with a volcanic matter that rose to its brim, but never overflowed: hero tho Indians purified themselves from all involuntary sins. Tho well, the Sophoi called the well of the test; tho the

crater, stone?the or

shut

casks as Hero

wind.

fire of

pardon2. of the winds

too

and or

is wanted

rain

the

found

they

were

Hero

statues

also

scon

two

casks

of

black

tho

ono

is oponod

othorwiso; similarly of tho most ancient

tho

other,

of

tho

rain3;

and

Greek

as

gods,

of tho Polian Minerva, and of and worshipped in tho Greek manner; Tho Sophoi look and and of tho Delian Bacchus, Ainychoau Apollo4. as of navel India. tho their very upon Thoy horo worship stronghold firo

obtained

from

tho

sun's

rays,

and

daily

hymn

its

praises

at

midday. Apollonius, in an address to tho Egyptians, somewhat enigmatically I have 80011,**ho says, " Brahmans describes tho life of the Sophoi:?" who dwell on tho earth, and yet not on the earth; in places fortified, 1 (l In the from tho wells till tho vapours or clouds of smoke ascended morning, was sufficiently to hide it," between heated the Ravi and the Chcnub. atmosphere ? Humes, II., 38. With the well of tho text comparo the test fountain ita water inCtcsias; into a chccsc-liko into a powder and mixed with hardens which, rubbed substance, to suspected administered criminals makes them tell all they ever did water, With tho firo (? 14, p. U2); also tho water of probation mentioned by Porphyry. of pardon compare that other water, in some cave tcinplo seemingly, Avhich puri fied from voluntary and involuntary offences de Stygc). (Porphyry 3 h. 1., suggests that these may havo been barometers; and then Olcarius, like the astronomer in Rasselas, the power of foretelling confounds Damis, merely with the power of producing. 4 12 <Y i)v Ivdot Otovv, EWnviKovg Havpaarne. Qt\o<ro$uiet trpooKWovai.'? Plutarch

do Portund

Alex.

Op. Var..

I. p. 580.


INDIAN TRAVELS OP APOLLONIUS OP TYANA.

89

and yet without walls; and who possess nothing, and yet all things." According to Damis they used tho earth as a couch, but first strewed it with choico grasses : thoy walked, too, tho air1?Damis himself saw them,

and

not

this

to

wonder?ail

excite

ostontatiou

to

is abhorrent

in imitation of and as a moro fitting service to tho thoir nature,?but sun. Ho saw, too, tho firo which they drew down from the sun's rays, ?not flaming on an altar, nor kept on a hearth though it is material, but flickering in mid-air3; and whilo in tho day time they worship tho sun, beseeching him to order tho seasons for India's benefit, in tho night thoy worship this firo, lest oppressed by the darkness it should lcavo them. And in this way is to bo understood Apollonius's first assertion: " Tho Brahmans livo on the earth, and yet not on tho earth." they

Damis second, over themselves

His draw

penetrate

His

Bacchanals

when

which Well notico

may without

and

that

pleasure,

say, can

Apollonius preparation on

of covoring which and

thoir

earth

the

clouds no

and

that

who

get

men,

whatever

and

them,

to others

they

at

which can

rain

up for his

bubblo

and givo

themselves drink

nothing and yet all things3. Macedonians,

to

shakes

Bacchus

thorcforo and

at

to those fountains which

third,

the Indians

refers

from

to drink. a moment's

want,

possess

They wear thoir hair long4, like tho old head

a whito

mitre6.

They

go

bare-foot;

and their coats havo no sleeves, and are of wild cotton, of au oily nature, and whito as Pamphylian wool, but softer6. Of this cotton 1 A7ro r)jc y?/c iQ 7T>fXnc Svo (Philos. III., c. 15), two cubits from the ground, no great height, but co n'cst quo le premier pouce qui couto. 2 " Sir C. Napier On reaching tho top, where we remained says, of Trukkce, had a bright flamo ou the point. A like during tho night, every man's bayonet had also been observed going from Ooch to Shapoor."?Life, appearanec III,, 272. not the night light of the Sophoi bo referred to sonic similar phenomenon ? 3 with of which Calanus these fountains those of milk, wine, &c, Compare in his interview with Onesicritus (Straho, ut sup., ? 01); and that happy speaks which Dio Ohrysostom iu India, a real pays dc Cocagnc, ironically describes

May

Cohenis Phrygiio Orat., xxxv., IL, p. 70. 1 Eastern Monaehisin seem it would that the Hardy, (p. 112), by which wear Brahmans long hair; tho Buddhist priest, on tho other hand, shaves his head; ho also Bardcsanes c"fmo tho newly-elccted describes Sainan.'ean: Zvpaptvog airuai rt irpog Xapavaiovg,? ut outparog ra 7nrnrra \upfiavu aro\i\v Porphyry, supra, 6 Still worn tribes about Cabool. by some of tho mountain says Elphinstone of tho Bikanecrs, turban "they wear looso clothes of whito cotton, and a remarkable Avhich rises high over tho head."?Cabool, L, III. 6 Hicroelcs as made from a soft and hairy speaks of the Brahman garments filaments from stones obtained iv. p. '130. Hist., (Sippariobij) (asbestos).?Frag. " Barnes of Cabool, ho produced some asbestos, hcrq called says of tho Nawab found near Jclalabud" cotton-Btonc, (ii. Lib1).


90

INDIAN TltAVBLS OP APOLLONIUS OP TV/ANA.

fho

sacred

any but wear a

aro

vestments themselves both

ring,

of

and

on a raised

throne

earth it.

gather

to

rofuscs carry

They

it up if give a stick1, and

power.

magic

seated on brazen stools;

found tho Sophoi

Apollonius larchas,

to

attempt infinite

tho

and

made;

of bronze,

with

ornamented

thoir chiof,

golden

images.

They saluted him with their hands, but larchas welcomed him in Greek, asked him for tho King's letter, and added, that it wanted a 6\ As soon as ho had read it, ho asked Apollonius, "What do you think of us 1" " Oh P said Apollonius, " tho very journey I havo undertaken ?and

am

tho

that

question."

I

answers

first

of

my

countrymen

"In

what,

then,"

who

has

enquired

undertaken

it? "do

larchas,

you

think us wiser than you ?" " I think your views wisor, more divine/* answered Apollonius; "and should I find that you know no moro than I havo nothing moro to I, this at least I shall havo learned?that learn." "Well," said the Indian, "other pcoplo usually ask of thoso who

visit

proof

so

of

them, our

come and who but wo, as a first they they aro; wo show that know them ;" and strangers

whence knowledge,

who his father was, who his mother, all

saying, ho told Apollonius

that

happened

to him

at yftgm,

and

how Damis

joined

him,

and

all

they

had said and done in the journey; and this so distinctly and fluently, that ho might have been a companion of their routo. Apollonius, greatly astonished, asked him how ho know all this. "In this know ledge,"

ho

answered,

are deficient we will secret

what

aro

"you

not

instruct you2,

is so worthy

of

being

wholly

wanting,

for wo think known,

especially

and

whcro

it not well from

you,

you

to keep ApoL

" 1 " The three firRt classes i. 45. Tho priest's ought to carry staves."?Menu, 40. should reach to his hair."?lb., 2When to Apollonius, of languages Damis speaks of his knowledge Apollonius observes all languages, and that without having that he himself understands merely learned them ; and more?that he knows not only what men speak, but their secret But as in India ho is accompanied (L. I., cxix.) thoughts by, and frequently makes use of an interpreter of his has, from the timo of Eusebius ; this pretension been ridiculed as an idlo boast. Philostratus xiv.), (in Hicroclem, frequently to havo left his hero open to such a however wa9 too practised a writer charge. His facts and statements too often, and with a His faults arc of another kind. certain oir of design, confirm and illustrate each other s thus, with regard to this observe that he professes not to speak, but to very power claimed by Apollonius, and men's dilferenco know all languages to all who aro thoughts?a intolligiblc and look at him in his first inter familiar with tho alleged facts of mesmerism; view with Phraotes; watch him listening tho talk of tho to, and understanding to interpret for him when ho king and the sages, and only then asking Iarchas also that Iarchas admits only to a certain extent himself Observo speak. and remember his surprise when he finds that Phraotes the power of Apollonius, knows and speaks (Irock.

would


INDIAN TRAVELS OF APOLLONIUS OP TYANA. man

lonius,?a

know

excellent

soul,

vory

let

us

to our

how do you

"But

"see

ho answered, a thousand

by

into

also

you

as

But

signs.

in which

devotions,

must

you

memory,

honour.

"Wo"

Apollonius. its qualities

out

tracing

approaches1,

midday

And

memory.

tho ono wo most

asked

nature?"

my

tho

of most

is of tho Gods

know,

91

may,

if you will, tako part." They then adjourned to tho bath, a spring liko that of Dircio, in Boootia, as Damis, who afterwards saw it, says. They first took off thoir clothes, and anointed their heads with an which

unguent,

into

jumped

their

mado

tho water,

run

bodies

and

down

washed,

having

with put

they

and

sweat,

then

on

garlands

their

heads and proceeded to tho temple, intent on thoir hymn. And standing round in a circle, with larchas as their leader, they beat tho ground with thoir staves, till bellying liko a wave it sent them up into the air

two

about

conio

down

Thoro

cubits.

to tho

and

companions;

a

When their

performed

liko

very

hymn,

sacred

of

in a shorter

he,

of

space

timo

than

was

bado him question men

who

now

on

seated

know

all

But

themselves?"

without

selves.

That,

could

bo admitted

to undergo,

things.

becauso

ho

and, further 1"

of Phraotcs,

throne

ho pleased,

and

quite

now

asked,

tho most diflicult, "Whether answered

larchas

for ho was

therefore

Apollonius

larchas

with assented

this

10 their

asked,

moro

to this,

were good they ho heard when

first

and

elementary

as

the Sophoi

contrary

to

especially

as he

no

knowledge,

philosophy. Apollonius, and the examination they

Phraotcs

observation in himself. themselves?" and was soul,

swiftest

his

that thoy knew all things, because they first knew them

expectation,

conversation

tho

them on any matter

though it was of all knowledgo know

the

I have taken

them.*'

Apollonius

among

larchas

duties,

birds, was gone and was back again, and told larchas,?" care

tho Pjcan

they had again

the anchor, and bado him take care of Apollo

called the youth with nius's

had

and

earth

sung

they

to /Esculapius.

sung at Athens

of Sophocles

felt

one

bin remembering had been obliged the

truth

of

tho

then asked "What opinion they held of told, "that they held themselves to be gods, Ho

men."

whether,

Apollonius held

that

they as

Pythagoras

then about enquired tho opinions of Pythagoras, remembered himself

tho

as

At sunrise, at noon, and at sunset, let the Brahman go to tho waters and vi. 22. "Sunrise and sunset are the hours when, bathe."?Menu, having made his the text which he ought to repeat."?II., 222. From ablution, he repeats the it seems the Itichas shine in the Vishnu the prayers of Purana, however, morning, at noon, and portions of tho Saman in the the Yajush 235. Harde afternoon.?p. saucH, ut supra, tov roivvv \povov rip; >//4t(>?<;Kt tijc vvktov. rov TrXtiorov ne vnvuvc Toty 0({t)p amvttpav $ ivxue,


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92

Euphorbus, so Iarchas could speak of somo ono of his previous as Greek

cither

or

or

Trojan,

any

man

other

?

Iarchas,

lives,

first

im

proving tho Greeks for their rcverenco for Trojan heroes and for Achilles as tho greatest of them, to tho neglect of better men, Greek, Egyptian, and Indian, related how years long ago ho had been ono then Ganges, king of tho Indian people, of whom tho Ethiopians, a Iioav ten this formed in cubits stature and tho Indians, part; Ganges, most comely of men, built many cities, and drove back tho Scythians who invaded his territories; and Iioav, though robbed of his Avifo by the then king of Phraotcs's country, ho had unliko Achilles kept Kicrcd his allianco with him; how too ho had rondered his father, the Ganges1 river, propitious to India, by inducing it to keep within its banks, and to divert its courso to the lied Sea2; bow, notliAvith stumliiig all this, tho Ethiopians murdered him, and were driven by tbe bate of the Indians, and tho now sterilo earth, and tho abortive births of thoir wives, to lcavo thoir nativo land; and Iioav,pursued by his ghost, and still sudoring tho samo ills, they Avandorcd from place to place, till having at length punishod his murderers they nettled too,

how

ground

in that Ganges in somo

of Africa from them called Ho part Ethiopia. told, seven had thrust swords adamantine into tho deep unknown Avhich when tho oracles declared it spot,

sacred, he then a child of four years old immediately But ceasing to speak of himself, bo directed Apollonius's

pointed out. attontion to

a

describod

in

youth

patient sophy,

tho

of

company

about

tAventy,

Avhoiu

under all suffering, and by nature especially but

beyond

measure

averse

to it;

and

whoso

ho

as

fitted for philo aversion

was

tho

consequence of tho ill-treatment and injustice ho had received from a Ulysses and Homer in former life. He had been Palamedcs. were thus talking, a messenger came from tho While they king to announce his approach, and that ho would bo Avith them towards Iarchas answered that ho evening, to consult on his private affairs. should be Avelcomo, and that he Avould leavo them a bettor man for Ho then resumed bis conversation with having known this Greek. him to toll something of his previous oxistencc. asked and Apollonius, Apollonius care didn't

excuses

hiinsolf,

to remember

it.

becauso "

But

as surely,"

it

avus observed

undistinguished Iarchas,

ho "

to bo

the pilot of an Egyptian ship is no such ignoble occupation, and such I sco you onco Avcrc." "True," replied Apollonius, "but a position 1 The Pin ana. is a goddess.?Vishnu Ganges " 2Wilford who led the refers this to tho legend of Bhagiratha, to the Ganges his two the wheels of ehariot with ocean, tracing furrows, which wero to be the limits of her encroachments."?As. lies., viii. 290.


INDIAN TRAVELS OP APOLLONIUS OF TYANA.

93

which should stand on a par with that of tho statesman or tho general has by tho fault of sailors themselves, become contemptible and Besides tho best of my acts in that lifo no ono then degraded. " But what thought worthy even of praise." great deed did you then " ?" asked larchas. I don't speak of doubling with slackened perform sail Malea and Sunium, or of carefully observing tho course of tho winds, or of carrying your ship over tho reefs aud swell of tho " " if Eubo)cn coast." Well," said Apollonius, you will compel me to of an sailor act of to initio listen in it which seems to my life, speak mo

a

one.

right

In

those

the Phomician

infested

pirates

days

Sea.

And somo of their spies, seeing that my ship was richly freighted, camo to me and sounded me, aud asked me what would bo my share of the freight. I told them a thousand drachmas, for wo wore four rA hut 'And what sort of a home have you ?' they asked. pilots. l on Pharos, whcro Proteus used to live,' I answered. Well,* they a went on, 'would you liko to change the sea for land?a hut for and,

house,

while

ten

rcceivo

you

times

the

to

expect,

you

profit

rid

yourself at the same time of tho thousand ills of the tempestuous sea V 'Aye, that I would,* I said. So they told mo who they were, and promised mo ton thousand drachmas, and that neither myself nor any of my crow should sudor injury, if I gavo thorn an opportunity of taking my ship. It was then agreed that I should set sail in the but lie-to tho under night, wero on tho other at anchor

and

promontory; should side,

that come

then

tho out

who pirates, seize my and

ship and cargo. As all this took placo in a temple, 1 made them swear to fulfil their promises; and I agreed, on my part, to do as But they wished. and so escaped."

"

of justice?" tho

lives a

above

of my bribe,

larchas

instead

Yes,"

this,"

lying-to, observed

said Apollonius

men,

and

I made

for

sail

larchas,

"you

; "and of humanity

tho

sea, open an act

think

; for to save

to lo and of my property employers, a I of virtues." hold to bo sailor, many proof " seem to think that remarked: You, Greeks,

and a

though

smiled,

of

"And

the

not to do wrong is to be just. Only the other day, an Egyptian told us of tho Roman proconsuls; how, without knowing the people, they entered their provinces with naked axes; and of tho people, how they praised dealers

their who,

governors to vaunt

if their

they wares,

only wore warrant

not

venal,

that

their

slave like just aro not Carians

thieves I Your poets, too, scarcely allow you to bo just and goo<l. For Minos, tho most cruel of men, and who with his fleets reduced his neighbours to slavery, they honour with tho sceptre of justice, and as tho judgo of tho dead. But Tantalus, a good man, who made his friends partakers of immortality, they deprivo of food and drink.1'


INDIANTRAVELSOF APOLLONIUS OP TYANA.

04

It was And he pointed to a statue on tho loft inscribed " Tantalus." four cubits high, and of a man of about fifty, dressed in tho Argolic He Avas drinking from a cup as fashion, with a Thessalian chlamys. ns a would for suffice largo thirsty man, and a pure draught bubbled in it without up OArerflowing. Their

occasioned

interrupted

and Iarchas angrily

not tho mysteries Phraotcs, no seeing preparations, inquired

Apollonius,

tumult

and

noiso

tho

by

by tho king's arrival;

it been

"Had

observed, quiet."

Avas hero

conversation

in the village

been

had

Avhothor

more they

intended ottering the king a banquet? "Ayo, and a rich ono, for wo have plenty of everything here," they said, "and ho is a and

The this

king,

ivIIoav no

ns India

such

fruits,

avo

But

feeder.

gross

with

glittering

animal season

tho

gold

was

Damis

intervieAv

and

not

food,

only

afford.

roots,

sweetmeats, But

comes."

ho

hero

and joavoIs, now approached.

At

tho wholo

of

present,

for

ho

spent

this day in tho villago, but Apollonius gave him au account of it, and he Avrote it in his diary. Ho says then that tho king approached with outstretched hands as a supplicant, and that the sages from their seats nodded, as if granting bis petition, at Avhich he rejoiced greatly, as at the oracle of a god; but of his son and brother they took no. more

than

notice

rose

?and asked

of

tho

him

if

who

slaves

accompanied eat. Tho king

Avould

he

Iarchas

him. assented,

and

then four

tripods, like those in Homer's Olympus, rolled themselves in, fol lowed by bronze cup-bearers, Tho earth strewed itself Avith gross, than

softer

SAvccts

and

couch;

any

and

fruits

broad,

and

vegetables,

nil excellently avcII prepared, moved up and doAvn in order beforo the guests. Of tho tripods, two flowed Avith Avine, two with Avater, hot and cold. The cups, each largo enough for four thirsty souls, and tho so Avero each of a in Greece and of a stono stone, Avinc-coolcrs, singlo as to bo set in Tho necklaces. bronze and cup-bearers rings precious, as usual iu drink out tho wine and water in due proportions, poured

They all lay down

ing-bouts. for no plaeo

avus

of honour

to tho feast,

assigned

tho king with

tho rest,

him.

In the courso of tho dinner Iarchas said to tho king, " I pledge you the health of this man," pointing to Apollonius, and with his hand a On this tho king signifying that he Avas just and divine man. "

observed, the

villago,

Iarchas, pursuits "Worthless

I understand are

"

for

friends even

?" asked guest

hero tho

ho

king. worthless

from becoming a man

somo others Avho havo put up in " You understand said rightly," " is Phraotcs* But Avhat aro his guest." " of Phraotcs," ansAvered Thoso Iarchas. even Phraotcs prcvont pursuits, they

that he, of Phraotcs."

and

indeed," said tho king.

"

Speak moro modestly


IMDIAN TRAVELS OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA. of not

and

philosophy become

your

I possess

"That

a

all

The

philosopher."

sophor, tell us what you am

a

so

man,

good

: " You "

am

I am

a

ono

with

tho

sun,"

Avould not think thus if you

philosopher."

philo

: " That

Apollonius Tho

a

are

as you

friend,

Well,

think of yourself."

as

long

:

king

inquired

from not being a philo

and

virtue,

does

language

larchas,

through

ho derived

Apollonius

this

larchas,?"

Apollonius,

advantage

answered tho king. wero

Here

ago."

of tho king " what sopher?"

observed

Phraotcs,"

95

"

:

king

I tho

By

"Thank heaven, sun,you como hero full of Phraotcs." Apollonius: then, that I have not travelled in vain ; and if you could seo Phraotcs, you would say he was full of me ; and indeed ho wished to to

writo

about

you

but when

me,

mo

told

ho

that

a

were

you

good

man, I bade him not take that trouble, for I had brought no letter to him.'* When tho king heard that Phraotcs had spoken well of him, ho was pacified, and forgot his suspicions ; and in a gcntlo tone said : best

"Welcome,

" What

one just arrived." "Tho

and

Gods

" Welcome

friend."

thoso wise

Apollonius,

you,"said

arc

"you

like

brought you to this place ?" asked the king. "

answered

men,"

Apollonius.

But,

"

stranger,

what do the Greeks say of mo?M inquired the king. Just what you "But that is just nothing," the king say of them," said Apollonius. "

I will

replied.

them

toll

said Apollonius; fool to himself

games," drunken

ho, and then

: but

they

turning tell me

crown

will to

you at tin; Olympic " : Let us leave this

larchas

to bin pay no attention why you " to your them table V* Because," " ono answered and them larchas, rule, they may day by slighting wo teach others." them not to slight then that Apollonius remarking was to larchas of the Sophoi the number it was not that 18, observed sou

and

brother,

and

a squnro

number,

nor

larchas

in answer,

but

not

a number

him

at

all

of

they paid added that tho

eighty-seven

or

honoured

that

; he

only it, consisted

entered

admit

indeed told

virtue

esteemed

father

do

no

distinguished, to number,

attention

when

college,

Sophoi,

and

that

his grand his grand

father then found himself its youngest, and eventually in the ono hundred and thirtieth1 year of his ago its only surviving, member ; that no eligible candidato having iu all that timo offered himself for ho

admission, ho

then

occupying with

the

romainod from

received

1

Ibn

years

the

small

number

of

without

Egyptians

the scat of wisdom,

blame tho Elians,

at Cabul

four

a

colleague;

and

that

when

on

his

alone

congratulations

he begged them not to reproach India

its wise

men.

larchas

then

went

in that as he had heard from tho Egyptians,

lhitiita speaks of Hindus Humes 120, l.'iO, and MO years of age. of 114, apparently with all his faculties about bun.?II., lOf).

on

to

they of one


INDIAN TRAVELS OF APOLLONIUS OP TYANA;

96

elected the Olympic diknsts by lot, and thus left to chanco what should bo tho reward of merit; and that they always elected the samo never

more,

number,?never

less;

and

that

thus

they

ex

somotimes

cluded good men and sometimes Avcro obliged to chooso bad ones. Better, bo said, it had been if tho Elians had alloAved tho number of tho dikasts to vary Avith circumstances, but had always required in them

tho

same

qualifications.

The king hero rudely interrupted them, ami expressed his disliko of tho Greeks, and spoke of tho Athenians as tho slaves of Xerxes ; Apollonius, turning to him, asked if ho had any slaves of his oavh ? "Twenty

"and

ho answered,

thousand,"

in my

born

" Well,

houso1."

then," said Apollonius (always through Iarchas), "as they run UAvay from you, not you from them, so Xerxes, conquered at Salamis, fled liko a Avorthlcss slave from before tho Athenians." "But surely," observed the king, "Xerxes, with his own hands set fire to Athens?" "Yes," " but how fearful avus his said Apollonius, punishment 1 Ho became a fugitive before those whom he had hoped to destroy; and in that flight Avasmost unhappy, for had ho died by tho hands of tho Greeks, Avhat a tomb would they not havo built for him?what games not instituted in his memory!?as knoAving that they honoured themselves Avhcn whom they had subdued." On this tho king those honoured they burst into tears, and excused himself, and attributed his prejudices against tho Greeks to the tales and falsehoods of Egyptian travellers, avIio, whilo

they

boasted

of

their

nation

as wise

and

and

holy,

author

of thoso laAvs relating to sacrifices and mysteries which obtain in Greece, described the Greeks as men of unsoilnd judgment, the scum of

men,

mongers, but able,

insolent

avyickvbac, poor, as an

and

and thoir

parading excuse for theft.

laAvless, poverty?not But now,

romancers,

and

miracle*

as

ho

honour something Avent on to say, that

I

knoAv them to bo full of goodness and honour, I hold them as my friends, and as my friends praise them, and Avlsh them all tho good I Iarchas can, and I wilt no longer givo credit to those Egyptians. hero observed that he had long perceived that tho Egyptians had got tho car of the king, but that ho said nothing, Avaiting till tho king But uoav that you should meet with such a counsellor as Apollonius. are better taught, let us, bo said, drink together tho loving-cup of Tantalus

; and

then

to

sleep,

for

avc havo

business

to transact

to-night.

I will however, as occasion offers, indoctrinate you in Greek wisdom, tho fullest in the Avorld. And so stooping to tho cup, he drank first, 1

uvai fo ? rode ptya tv ry Ivdtov yy iravrag to Mcgasthenes, According xi. ovh Indica, Ii-tfoie aXXof tfovXoc tan. li??oi?c uvai tXtvOtpovc;.?Arrinn ut sup., ? 51. limits this to the subjects of Musicanus.?Slrabo, Onesicritus


INDIAN TRAVELS OP APOLLONIUS OP TYANA.

97

and then handed it to the other guests ; and there was enough for all, for it bubbled up as if from a fountain. They lay down to rest, and at midnight thoy rose, and aloft in tho air hymned the praises of tho sun's ray; the Sophoi then gavo private audience to tho king. Next morning early, after the sacred rites, the to visit him retired to tho king having vainly pressed Apollonius village; for by law ho could not remain more than one day at tho college. The Sophoi now sent for Damis, whom they admitted as a Tho

guest.

conversation

tho world;

how

it is

then

and

commenced, of five

composed

larchas

elements?water,

on

discoursed fire,

air,

earth,

and mther1; and how they aro all co-ordinate,

but that from sethcr the

are from air mortals, Gods, an animal, and hermaphrodite;

moreover

how

generated; and how

as

the

world

is

it reproduces

hermaphrodite

by itself and of itself all creatures; and how as intelligent it provides for their wants, and with scorching heats punishes their wrong-doing. And this world larchas further likened to ono of thoso Egyptian ships' which navigate the Red Sea. By an old law, no galley is allowed there ; but only vessels round fore and aft (oroyyuXoi), fitted for trade. Well, theso vessels the Egyptians havo enlarged by build ing up their sides, and fitting them with several decks ; and they have manned

them

with

aud

sails;

for and the masts ; seamen prow and over ami the barbarians; against in the the rest. rules and directs So,

at pilots as a guard who pilot,

tho

above

marines, them all, ono

world,

there is the first God, its creator;

its several

parts?sung above

streams;

gods

perchance terrible

by the

tho earth,

next him, the gods who rulo

as

poets, and

gods

gods

of

rivers,

under

too there is below the earth, but distinct

and

deadly."

Here,

unable

to

contain

tho

groves,

and

earth;

and,

from it, a placo

himself,

Damis

cried

" Never could I have believed that any Indian out, iu admiration: was so thoroughly conversant with tho Greek language, and could speak it with such fluency and eloquence 1" A messenger now announced and introduced several Indian sup child possessed, a lame and bliud man, &c.,?all of whom plicants?a wero

cured.

1 Mcgasthcncs the Brahnmuical

(Strabo, ut supra, ? 59) gives pretty nearly tho same account of that the world has a beginning, and will have an end ; doctrines, there is that God, its ruler and creator, pervades it; that besides the four elements was a disciple of a fifth, tothcr; and Alexander asserts that Pythagoras Polyhistor cethcr as one of tho Brahmans} III. ? 138, p. 239, and p. 241 mentions Frg. Hist., tho Pythagorean elements. 2 Tho As, boat among tho Hindus is one of the types of the earth.?Wilford had to prove this passage that tho Hindus lies., viii. 274; Von Bohlcn quotes of ono God.?-Das tho knowlcdgo Alto Indien. I. 152. VOL. XVII.

H


INDIAN TRAVELS OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA.

98

Iarchas further initiated Apollonius, but not Damis, in astrology aud divination, and in those sacrifices and invocations in which tho gods delight. Ho spoko of tbe divining power, as raising a man to an equality Avith the Delphian Apollo, aud as requiring a pure heart and a stainless life, and as therefore readily apprehensible by the rothcrial soul of Apollonius. He extolled it as a source of immense good to and

maukind,

discovered

tho

Then "

ho

to

referred

it

tho son of Apollo?

pius

said,

several in a ne\rcr

"Yes,

by

pleasaut foresee Jove,"

was

art?for

physician's

not

-/Escula

it not through his oracles

for diseases,

remedies

turning, do you

a man?"

tho

and was Avay,

for

herbs

that ho &c?

Avounds,

to Damis,?"And

you,

Assyrian." of such

the

companion "matters that

anything?you, answered Damis,

concern

mj'self; for Avlicn I first met with this Apollonius, he seemed to mo a man full of wisdom and gravity und modesty and patience; and when I saw his memory and great learning aud lovo of learning, I looked upon him as a sort of Dtcinon; and I thought if I kept Avithhim, that instead of a simple and ignorant man, I should be thought Aviso, instead of a barbarian; and that if I followed him and ?learned, studied

Avith

him,

I

should

see

tho

and

Indians,

see

and

you;

that

As to through his means 1 should mix Avith tho Greeks, a Greek. you then you aro occupied Avithgreat things, and think Delphi and or

Dodona

what

you

As

will.

for

when

me,

Damis

bo

predicts,

predicts for himself only, liko an old witch." At theso Avoids all tho Sophoi laughed. Apollonius inquired about tho Martichora1, an animal tho size of a lion, four-footed, Avith tho head of man, its tail long Avith thorns for at it out shoots those which who tho golden hairs, pursue it;?about fountain2 too; and the men who uso their feet for umbrellas, tho scia Iarchas had never pods3. Of tho golden fountain and Martichora, beard; but ho told Apollonius of tbe Pcntarbu, and showed him tho stone

and

its effects.

It

is a wonderful

gem,

about

tho

of a man's

sizo

thumb-nail, and is found in tho earth at a depth of four fathoms; but though it makes the ground to swell and crack, it can only bo got at by colour

use

the

and

of of

a stream

into

certain

ceremonies

extraordinary it draws to

and

brilliancy, it and clusters

It

incantations. and

of such round

is of that

power, it all precious

a fiery thrown stones

1

Ctesias, p. 80, ? 71 Didot. 2 Notes Id., p. 73. ? 4. Wilsou, myths. 3

Id.,

by Wilford, Scianodas Sciapods

on Ctesias,

explains

and

accounts

for

theso

104 aud 84. the people of India, from Hindu Among authority quoted " are the Ecapada, oue-footed. Monosccli eosdeiuquo singulis ciuiibus, from Pliny (ib.) and tho From Wilson's the oue-footcd vocari," Notes, should bo two different races. ?


OP APOLLONIUS OP TYANA. INDIANTRAVELS within a certain considerable tho other side of the Ganges wero

Longheads

mere

99

on range1. The pigmies, ho said, lived and under ground; but the Sciapods and of

inventions

He

Soylax.

described

also

tho

gold-digging griffins; that they were sacred to the Suu (his chariot is represented as drawn by them2), about the size of lions3, but stronger becauso

that

winged;

their

wings

a reddish

were

and

and

dragons;

that

tho

of

because

alone,

tiger

and

membrane,

their flight was low and spiral; that thoy overpowered

hence

lions, elephants,

his

was

swiftness,

their equal in fight. He told of tho Phomix, the ono of his kind, born of the sun*s rays, and shining with gold, and that his .000 years of life wore- spent in India; and ho confirmed the Egyptian account of this bird?that singing his own dirgo ho consumed himself in his aro matic nest, at tho fountains of the Nile. Similarly also swans, it is said, sing thcnisolves to death, and havo been heard by thoso who aro very quick of ear. Thoy remained four months with the Sophoi; and larchas gavo seven

Apollonius afterwards

woro,

seven

tho

after named rings, in its turn, on each

its

planets,

which When

name-day.

ho they

ever took

thoir departure, tho Sophoi provided them with camels and a guide, and accompanied them on tho road; and, prophesying that Apollonius would oven during his life attain tho honours of divinity, they took lcavo of him: and many times looking back, as in grief at parting with his left

a man,

such

companions, travelled (sic), ou

and

their

lions, panthers that faced, what

frequent and like

factory,

road

larchas

and And Apollonius on their tho Hyphasis a ten days' journey, wild

oxen,

and tigers, and a species of ape different the

popper-groves, men. And

little

reached they they saw, and passage-boats of

dark colour. to

to their collcgo. on their tho Ganges right, the sea-coast, down towards saw many birds aud they returned

with

Horo Apollonius

for so the

were

they

conversing, whcro coast,

a Tuscan

build,

sent back

asses

aud

from thoso

and dog black, hairy, as their custom of was, a small found they tho sea of a very and

tho camels, with

this letter

:-?

1 Strabo from them. also mentions Ctesias JVIogasthonos, lb., ? 50. " Tho seven 2 Iu tho Vishnu of Purana: horses of the sun's car arc the metres or tho Vcdas," p. 218. Sculptured painted horses always. 3 has shown (Ariana Ant'upia) p. 112, ? 12, and p. 95, ? 70. Wilson Ctesias, " Those triLc s foundation. that this story has au Indian from tho Mahabhaiata, thnt gold in lumps of a drona weight, Mandura between Meruand verily presented * called and which is therefore Avhich is dug up by Pippilikas Pippilika (ants), sec A Journey to Lako Mfmasarovarn, and by 135, note); (p. ant-gold,*" iu the gold country which Schwanbeek who speaks of a sort of marmot Mooicroft, suppoies

to bo tho original

of this ant.?As.

lies.,

xii.

442.

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INDIANTRAVELSOP APOLLONIUS OP TYANA.

100

"To larchas and the other Sophoi from Apollonius, greeting: I came to you by land; through you I can now return by sea. You have communicated to me your wisdom, aud through you I can now walk the air. I shall not forget theso things oven among the Grcoks, unless, indeed, I have vainly drunk of the cup of Tantalus. Farewell, yo best philosophers." then embarked, and set sail with a fair and gentle Apollonius breeze. He admired the Hyphasis, which at its mouth narrow and rocky hurries, through beetling cliffs, into the sea, with some danger to those who hug tho land. He saw too the mouth of tho Indus, and Patala, a city built on an island formed by the Indus, whcro Alexander collected his fleet. And Damis confirms what Orthagoras lias related of the Red Sea?that the Great Bear is not thoro visible; that at noon there is no shadow; aud that the stars hold a different positiou in the heavens. He speaks of Byblus with its large mussels, and of Pagala of the Oritm where tho rocks and the sands are of copper; of the Ichthyo phagi and their city Stobera, where the people clothe themselves iu and

fish-skins,

feed

their

cattlo

on

of

fish;

tho

an

Carman,

Indian

race and civilized, who of tho fish thoy catch keep only what they can cat, and throw tho rest, back into the sea; and of Balara, living, where they anchored, a mart for myrrh and palms. Ho tolls too of the mode in which tho people get their pearls. Iu this sea, which is very deep, tho oyster of a white shell is fat, but naturally produces no

pearls.

When

however

the

weather

is very

calm

and

tho

sea

smooth, and made still smoother by pouring oil upon it, tho Indian diver, equipped as a sponge-cutter, with the addition of an iron pinto and a box of myrrh, goes down to hunt for As soon as ho oysters. has found one, he seats himself beside it, and with his myrrh stupefies it and makes it open its shell. Tho moment it does this, ho strikes it with a skewer, and receives on his iron plato cut into shapes tho ichor which is discharged from its wound. In theso shapes the ichor hardens, and the pearls thus made differ in nothing from real pearl.1 This sea, he adds, is full of moustcrs, from which tho sailors protect themselves by bells at the poop and prow. Thus sailing, thoy at last reach the Euphrates, and so up to Babylou, and again meet Bardancs. In reviewing this account of India, our first enquiry is into tho authority on which it rests. Damis was the companion of Apollonius, 1 Is

this

au

indistiuct

and

garbled

account

of

pearls described iu a lato Journal of the Society T

tho Chinese

modo

of uinldng


OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA. INDIANTRAVELS so Philostratus Avroto a as

journal, as capablo

101

and not improbably publio rumour affirmed. no

and, though man of any

was

scholar,

correctly

Damis

to Philostratus according down and Avhat ho saw

noting

hoard1. But Damis died, and his journal, if journal ho kept, lay buried with him for upwards of a century, till ono of his family pre sented it to the Empress Julia Domna, the wife of Severus, curious in no additions in what state??untouched??with such matters?But to suit tho Empress's taste? Who shall tell? Again, tho Empress did not ordor this journal to bo published, but ga\re it to Philostratus, a sophist and a rhetorician, Avith instructions to re-write and edit it; and so rc-Avrittcn and edited ho at length published it, but not till after tho death of his patroness, tho Empress. VVoigliing then theso all

circumstances,

to grave

open

every

suspicion,

one must

that

admit

tho journal of Damis gives no authority to Philostratus's work; but that this last, and more especially the books which relate to India, may givo authority to tho journal and history. By their contents then they must be judged. should pay little attention That Apollonius to, and not very external

describe,

accurately

objects,

be

might

ono

without

tho Hindu-kush

remark

on

its

snow-covered

plaint on tho difficulties and dangers of its ascent8. these bad

descriptions ? If you

lengthy oxistonco

credulous

and

eager

can

Ono

expected.

that, occupied with the soul and the gods, ho should toil up

understand

of animals

and

forward

Damis?of

put listener,

wonders

that

never

the to

still

have

you

natural

peaks?one

But how explain

earth, earthy?an show how it is, that

these descriptions so exactly tally with those of Ctesias and the histo Iioav it is they aro never original, except to add to rians of Alexandor; our

list

of

errors,

or

of

bears

has

and

Prometheus, to tell

errors

to oxaggerato

Caucasus, more fortunate of Bacchus

but

already

sees and

his his

chains.

climbs

Ho

orgies,?now

no

longer

on

Thus,

existing.

than tho soldiers of Alexander,

ho not only Mount tho

Nysa, inventions

did not Damis of flattery as Eratosthenes so shrowdly suspected,?for terms Seleucus there find his temple and his statue??In general Nicator and Onesicritus had vaunted tho long life of elephants; but in Taxila, Damis admired tho elephant of Poni3, and on its golden bracolots read its name and ago. Copying Ctesias, he speaks of tho 1

xtavoc. ^ o,ri i)kovoiv w utitv ayarv7rw<rai*?tr^ofym avaynaxpai, Aiarpi/3jji> tovto apiara avOpiamov.?-L, c. 19. ui>, i?, tirtribivt * was indifferent to ; but Apollouius's not even Hioueu-Thsaug which Dangers " wo may account for by an observation In India, qui of Cicero: indifference sapientcs pcrforunt

tetatcm agunt, et audi habenlur, L. v. sino doIore."?Tusc. Quoost.,

Caucasi

nives

hyenialemcme

vim


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102

Indus, forty stadia broad whoro narrowest1; of giant Indians, fiA'Ocubits high; of worms, with an inoxtinguishablo oil; of winged gritting, but instead of large as avoIvcs, ho makes them large as lions ; and of tho swift one-horned ass, and the joAvel Pantarbas, both of which ho and saw. Similarly of two serpents or dragons, 80 and 140 Apollonius cubits respectively, pets of Aposoisares, Oncsicritus had hoard, but Damis was present at a dragon-hunt, and had seen dragons' heads Suroly such informa hanging as trophies iu tho streets of Paraka. not

tion,

forward

put

as

inero

but

reports,

solomnly

vouched

can

for,

never ha\re como from a man avIio has really visitod India, or thoy camo from ono of as littlo authority as Monctojs Pinto, Avhon ho gives nn account of his expedition to and a description of tho imperial tombs of China. But, it will bo said, these Avondcrs Avero tho common stock in trado of

Indian

as much examine the

travellers;

to India

went

and

as

his

Damis

porphyry

man avIio iu thoni, and cvory man bolioved ovcry of India, was at least wroto of not soeiug ashamed then theso prcdocossors. Leaving common-places,

whero tomplo

ho and

or so. To nearly at Taxila; mosaics

is original, tho metal

Ave oavo

him to

that

him,

spur of Caucasus, stretching down from the Indian sido of tho to him, its popper-forests, and its to tho Indian Ocean; Hypbasis so in tho useful gathering popper-harvests. Through him monkeys, we

knoAv

of

tho groves

crater-fire

of pardon,

to Venus,

sacred

to au Indian marriage.

Ho

its rain-cask,

and

the

so

unguent

necessary

tells of tho wondrous

alono and

its

bill;

of Tantalus;

its brimming-cup

aud though of casks of tho winds, and of self-acting tripods, Homer had already written; and though of a avcB of tho test, Ctesias had vaguely heard, and its qualities Bardasaues had described, to Damis belongs this merit, ho gavo them local habitation, mado them facts. With the Sophoi he lived four months in closest intimacy, and yet from his description of them, who shall say, avIioand what they avcre ? To tho poAvers he ascribes to them both Buddhists and Brahmans But whilo thoir modo of election, determined by ancestral pretend. and personal character, points them out as Buddhists, thoir naino, their But

their hair, worship long or Brahman, at Buddhist

Apollonius

sits a disciplo,

of thoir

and

tho foot

sun, after

doolaro a

long

they instruct him?in

thorn

Brahmans2.

aud woury

doctrines

travel

and

1 Philostratus to yap avrov roaovrov, its breadth vr\mpov scarcely so strong, at the ferry where pcoplo usually cross.?II., 17 and 10. 7 who knew of Brahmans and Buddhists Bardasancs, only from report, has a very clear and intelligible account of both. I have already referred to it. given ? iv. 17. Porphyry,


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In tho very heart of India ho opinions which wore current at Athens. finds its sages, though "inland far they be,** well acquainted with Greok geography and the navigation of the Grecian seas, worshipping Greek than Greek gods, speaking Greek, thinking Greek,?more Indian. Absurd and impossible as this description seems to us, our Damis, if I judge him rightly, was not the man to advance what tho Greek mind was wholly unprepared to receive. Accordingly, long had announced au ago Clitarchus aud tho historians of Alexander, to him, Mcgasthcnes added a Hercules ; and, Indo-Grcok Bacchus; moro

gods1.

of such a worship wero not improbably current; moroly tioned

Nicolaus Similarly, in connexion with languago

confirmed

authority, rumours

Vague

and Damis's Ho

India.

journal

first men

Damascenus2

them.

tho Greek

on what

not

I know had proclaimed, Plutarch recently, wore of tho Greek the Indians worshippers

that

that

states,

when at Antioch Epidaphne (20 n.c), ho met with some Indian am bassadors on their way to Augustus Cucsar. They were three in number whom ho saw, and had originally been more, as their letters showed, but tho greater part had perished on tho road. Their letter and

parclunont,

written

It declared that Porus,

iu Greek. valued

on

was

of crodenco

the

and was

of Augustus,

friendship

was

tenor

the

of in tho chargo of a youth sisted at tho shoulders3?a vipers,

a snake

partridgo was that escape

eight whoso

Indian

letter.

naked

to open

ready

his

kingdom

it wero presents accompanying in girdles con well and anointed, a child, ho was had been cut off

Tho

slaves when

arms,

and

Porus,

of Hermes, whom Strabo saw?somo himself a river of four tortoise cubits and cubits, Jong, than a vulture. the ambassadors larger Among sort

ten

somewhat

from

of tho

of

lord over GOOkings, much

him and them all duo assistance.

to him and his people, and give Such

namo

in the

though

who

present

at Athens,

himself

burned evils,

but

because

as

not hitherto

having

some

do,

a

to in

succeeded

every thing, ho feared lest any longer lifo should bring him misery and disappointment; and so, joyous and well-anointed, he leaped into tho manos

burning

pilo.

Chcgan4,

This inscription of Bargosa, who,

gavo himself immortality.'*

is on

his

according

Plutarch

tomb to

his

:~~"Hero country's

(end of tho 1st century)

lies

Zar

custom,

though

1 Vide supra, noto 4, in page till. 2 ?91, p. 419. Frag. Hist., 3 Tho words aro : urot Ct ra culpa rov Tt"V.npav otto roa> toptov n^mnjfuxov bv $t iiftag ucnpiv. ik viyrrtov rovg fipaxiovac, Lassen has translated this a statue the arms of which had been broken off at the shoulders To of Hermes, by a boy. which such a translation would imply, of construction say nothing of the harshness as a youth. u passage from Dio Cassius speaks of this Ilenncs 4 Cramaua iii. 60. teacher of tho Cramans.?Lassen, Karja,


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ho docs not name the Indians iu enumerating the great deeds of Alex ander, narrates that by his means Asia was civilised and Homer read there, and that tho children1 of Porsians, Susians, and Gedrosians Dio Chrysostom2, sang tho tragedies of Euripides and Sophocles. a friend of with and in a pane Plutarch, (cotemporary Apollonius), insists his Homer, upon upon wide-spread reputation; that ho gyric lived in the memory, not only of Greeks, but of many of tho barbarians; "for his poems, it is said, aro sung by tho Indians, who havo trans lated them into their own language; bo that a pcoplo who do not con template

tho

same

stars

is not visible,?are tears and wailings Achilles

and

as

whoso

ourselves,?in

our

heaven

polar

star

not unacquainted with the grief of Priam, and tho of Hecuba and Andromacho, and tho courago of

Hector."

/Elian,

of

about

the

samo

age

as Philostratus,

tells us that not only the Indians, but the kings of Persia also, have translated aud sung tho poems of Homer, if ono can credit thoso who On such vague authority, coupled doubtless write on these matters*." with the fact that an Indo-Greek kingdom had formerly existed, and had at one timo extended to the Jumna, and that barbaric kings so honoured Greece,

that

on

their

coins

thoy

entitled

themselves

Philhelleno*,

Damis

built up this part of his romance, which flattered Greek prejudices and soothed Greek vanity, and was willingly received by that influential and educated class to whom itwas addressed, and who wore struggling to give new life aud energy to the perishing religion of Greece. Of Damis*s geography, I can only say that it reminds me of a soon as ho leaves tho well-known scono of Alexander's fairy talo. As to crosses unknown mountains ho any map, and then describes exploits, an immense plain of fifteen days* journey to tho Ganges, and eighteen himself travels over in fourteen days to the lted Sea, but which ho hill of tho Sophoi, and thence, reaches tho ho four in for days days; Who shall in ten days, arrives at tho ono mouth of tho Hyphasis. for theso mistakes, and f\x locali explain these discrepancies, account ties thus vaguely described ? it seems to mo that tho wholo work of Philostratus, Reviewing to havo travelled through, and made Apollonius certainly protended some stay in India, but that very possibly ho did not really visit it; and that if ho did visit it, our Damis never accompanied him; but, if we may

judge

from

the

cinnamon

and

pepper-trees,

the mangosteen,

1 Km $ Vidptoouov naxdig rag Evpnritioo #t Sovaianov Utpatov n<W, ut supra, Tpaytonag II. Reisko. De Homero 277} p. Oratio, LIIL, J Varirc L. xii., c. 48. Hist., * Hist., p. 117. Bayer Reg. Grcec. Bactriaui

tho

^ 2v$oic\tovg


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105

in pearls, and tho frequent reference to Egypt and Egyptian travellers, fabricated this journal perhaps from books Avritton upon India, and tales1 current about India, which he easily collected at that great mart for Indian commodities, and resort for Indian mer trade

chants?Alexandria.

1

to tho same

sources

as those from which

Dio Chrysostom obtained ho speaks of to tho people of Alexandria, and a few Indians Bactrians, (Ivowv rivog), as frequenting Persians, Scythians, for his Indian talc to the Cclicni, he gives: and as authority their city (lb. I, p. 072); '(vikiv. riprg ipnopiag rivig riov afiKvovptvMv iQaoav' a<pacvovprat St ov iro\\ot tariv IpSwp to yivog, rovro fa aripop bvroi 6t i7rip*yvvvrai rotg npng 0a\arr\j' o\ re aXXot tyiyovoip 72, p. 3. avrovg,?II., Traceable

his stories

about

India.

In his oration


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