Ancient Writers of Indian History

Roman writer

·       Herodotus, “the father of history”, explains relations between India-Iran of 5^th B.C. in his book “Historica”.

·   Magasthanese was the ambassador of Salucas Nicator in the Royal Court of emperor Chandragupta Maurya, who wrote a book “Indica”, which explains the Society and the Culture of that time of India.

·     Dimecas was the ambassador of the Serian king Antiocas come in the Royal Court of emperor Bindusar.

·  Dionicias was the ambassador of the Egyptian King Tallemi Phylledelphus, come to the Royal Court of emperor Ashoka.

·         Tallemy was a writer of 2^nd century who wrote a book “Geography of India”.

·         Plini wrote the book “Natural History” in 1^st century in which he wrote about India.

·     “Periplus of the Erithrian Sea” book was written by an unknown Roman writer who comes to India in 80 A.D. in this book he wrote about the harbor and the trading things.

Chinese writers

• Fahiyan was the Chinese tourist came to the Royal Court of kind Chandragupta-II. He wrote about the society and the culture of Madhya Pradesh.
• Sangyun come to India in year 518 A.D. to collect the Buddhist Relic.
• Hwensang or Yuan-Chuang comes to India at the time of king Harshawardhan in year 629A.D. He wrote the book “Si-Yu-Ki”, in which he wrote about 138 countries.
• Itsing come to India in the ending of 7^th century. In his books, he explains about the Nalanda University, Vikramshila University and about the Indian of that time.