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Earliest Western Account of India + Caste System // 300 BC Megasthenes // Ancient Primary Source

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Text taken from "Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian: Being a Translation of the Fragments of the Indika of Mecasthenes Collected by Dr. Schwanbeck, and of the First Part of the Indika of Arrian" by JW Crindle.

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