First Greek who Visited India

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In this video, we will talk about a Greek named Scylax. From the different Greek sources, it appears that Scylax was the first Greek to visit India. What different scholars have to say about this visit of Scylax will be looked at in this video.
Reference:-
1. The Greek Experience of India by Richard Stoneman
2. Megasthenes' Indica translation with commentary by Richard Stoneman
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@agniswar3

What a coincidence! I just bought a Bengali translation of Megastgenes's 'Ta Indika' and here Jay is with the first Greek traveller!😊

@John_O_Connor

So basically the Greek came to the land of Pakistan and not present day India ❤️🇵🇰

@nitkills7070

Jay bhai with another banger, wish we had the original Indica and scylax's work with us today.

@kshatrapavan

Caspatyrus could be Kapisha, in modern day Afghanistan. Pactyic country could mean the country of the Pakthas (modern day Pakhtun). Traveling East from Kapisha and the Pakhtun country following the Kubha (Kabul) river you reach the Indus.

@Shubham-1999

Cotton was also first time mentioned by herodetus i.e in india crops grows wool which is superior to sheep wool in beauty. He also mentions about ants that mine gold (myth obviously).

@rohitrane1900

Could Caspatyrus/Caspapyrus country be some place near Kashmir or any other place derived from the Sanskrit root Kashyapa? Sounds like Kashyapapura in Sanskrit.

@Tillu_dream16-39

If reincarnation is true, the only issue I have with life is that why do we have to die and restart all over again. Anyways, I understand life is not what we think it is and I think I will die wondering about it.

@anirudh2704

Hi, can u make a detailed video of Mitanni emipre and its link with sanskrit language. We even find 1400bce rock carving of sanskrit talking about horse training. And also mention of vedic gods.

@shakti12321

Ancient Myceian Greek had contact with Indus valley they used to call silk as SINDHOM

@dhruvsingh7215

Love your work sir Can you please make a video on religious practices of INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION

@bhnuc

As always happens from your videos, learned something new! Keep these coming.

@rowlattgamer3355

There is actually growing consensus on the fact that persians (achaemenids) likely never ruled any parts of Inda directly like having a satrapy . There is really not enough evidence archealogically of achaemenid present east of kabul .

@rowlattgamer3355

Whats going on , JSTOR links I'm putting are not being visible or getting removed here .

@kalpathyrama

#River

@markaxworthy2508

Doesn't the "30th month" sailing time also favour the Ganges rather than the Indus? That implies at least two monsoon seasons. From the Indus back is one season. As Alexander found, there was little incentive to dawdle home from the mouth of the Indus. By contrast, there was a lot to delay one and investigate on the way back from the mouth of the Ganges. What does the "Periplus" say about sailing times? Has anyone looked for a "Caspatyrus" equivalent on the upper Ganges tributaries?

@rowlattgamer3355

Bhai reply nhi diya tha last video mai , whats your opinion on asirgarh seal of maukhari king , did they already had land beyond narmada

@thestormbreaker6221

Yeah it could be a possibility that he waged a naval expedition in ganga river but i don't think personally that the boundaries of achaemenid empire was stretched beyond indus because we have already know that various Mahajanpadas were there .( which was possibly hard to conquer even for persians ) plus i want to ask a question that if there was a book and even fewer abstracts of that book aren't present today then how could we possibly tell that there was an actual book written by scylax ????