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Ptolemy : astronomer, geographer, & mathematician of Alexandria in 2nd cent. BC; he held Earth to be stationary; 14 rulers of Egypt (323-30 BC) were named Ptolemy.

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... basic original form and "Tulamāya" as a mere dialectal variation. "Tulamāya", which seems to correspond to "Ptolemy", is an improper form for comparison with the Greek name. It is the basic "Turāmaya" that has to be compared. But how can we ever equate "Turāmaya" with "Ptolemy"? If "Ptolemy" had been intended, surely the basic original form would have been "Tulamāya" and the l would have stayed... truth, it is not more strange than to read in other inscriptions of the same emperor the name of Antiochus, King of Antioch (Antiochus II Theos), that of Ptolemy, King of Egypt (Ptolemy II Philadelphus), that of Magas, King of Cyrene, brother of Ptolemy, that of Antigonus (Gonatas) of Macedonia, lastly, that of Alexander (either Alexander of Epirus or Alexander of Corinth). To reach Antioch, Alexandria... Larike, in which Ptolemy (Sections 62-63) situates Ozéné, is put by Ptolemy clearly outside of Indo-Scythia. Therefore his Ozéné cannot have been in Śaka hands in the 4th decade of the 2nd century A.D. and must have been the capital of Tiastenes (however we may interpret this name) at some time in the past. If Lariké lay, as B. C. Law 5 also 1. Ancient India as described by Ptolemy, p. XXI. ...

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... Ben- 1. McCrindle's Ancient India as Described by Ptolemy, edited by S. N. Majumdar, p. 212. 2. The Classical Accounts..., op. cit. 3. Ibid., p. 308. 4. Journal of Indian History, Vol XXXIV, Part III, Dec. 1956. p. 267. 5. The Classical Accounts..., p. 281. 6.McCrindle, Ancient India as Described by Ptolemy, p. 175. Page 170 gal is reported... statements of Diodorus. Most probably Ptolemy himself or his model, Marinus of Tyre, misunderstood Megasthenes and, on finding Gange in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea and perhaps also in the reports of others, got confirmed in the misunderstanding by the resemblance of their word to the first two syllables of the word from Megasthenes. Ptolemy is certainly not beyond error. R. C. Majumdar... their decision they quote two authorities: (1) Megasthenes (c. 302 B.C.) whose lost book Indica is believed to have been extensively drawn upon by several Classical authors after him; and (2) Ptolemy (c. 130 A.D.), the geographer. Both are taken to be explicit in their indications, leaving little room for controversy. But we submit that the indications seen in Megasthenes are due to a ...

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... Antiochus. MELITUS - a Court official. CALLICRATES - a young Greek noble of Syria. THERAS - a gentleman in waiting. AN EREMITE. CLEOPATRA - an Egyptian princess, sister of the reigning Ptolemy, Queen of Syria; widow successively of King Nicanor and his brother Antiochus. RODOGUNE - a princess of Parthia, prisoner in Antioch. EUNICE - daughter of Nicanor. CLEONE - sister of Phayllus... Egypt? You have seen hundred-gated Thebes, my Thebes, And my high tower where I would sit at eve Watching your kindred sun? And Alexandria With the white multitude of sails! My brother, The royal Ptolemy, did he not love To clasp his sister in your little limbs? There is so much to talk of; but not now! Eunice, take them from me for a while. Take Rodogune and call the other slaves. Let them array... Page 255 TIMOCLES Mother! CLEOPATRA Behold your king! MENTHO She has done it, gods! There is an astonished silence. NICANOR Speak once more, daughter of high Ptolemy, Remembering God. Speak, have we understood? Is Timocles our king? CLEOPATRA ( with a mechanical and rigid gesture ) Behold your king! Nicanor makes a motion of assent as to the accomplished ...

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... in Saurashtra. Beyond this Arhtiyoka were four rājas who are not labelled as "Yona": Turamāya, Arhtekini, Magā (or Makā), Alikasudara. These too have been equated with the post-Alexandrine Ptolemy of Egypt, Antigonus of Macedon, Magas of Cyrene and Alexander of Epirus or Alexander of Corinth. But it is forgotten that the 5 Greek kings concerned were not the only ones in the post-Alexandrine... equivalents can be criticized and the components of the names shown to be explicable without resort to them. All in all, it is possible to prove Page 592 "Antiochus" indecisive, "Ptolemy" impossible, "Magas" unnecessary, "Antigonus" inaccurate and "Alexander" unlikely as well as gratuitous. Aśoka can further be proved to have had no connection with Ceylon: his "Tāmbapamnī" and... is a late scion of the famous Āndhra-Sātavāhana dynasty which ruled from Pratishthāna. The historical circumstances disclosed by a critical study of the Periplus and of the later Geography of Ptolemy fit him into just the period required for destroying the Śakas who had returned victoriously to Ujjayinī some time after the death of Vikramāditya, their earlier conqueror, according to Indian traditions ...

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... (town), 85 'Prithusena', 97 Prithviśvara, 89 Prithvi-vigraha, 491-2 Przyluski, J., 460 Pseudostomos, 278 Ptolemy (The Geographer), 85, 153, 169-73, 247, 263, 278, 290, 380, 418, 420, 455, 456, 476-82, 520, 530, 540-41, 602, 603-4 Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 226, 238, 267, 272, 434, 435, 452 Pul-i-Darunteh, 235, 322 Pulakesin II, 2, 3, 50, 228, 605 Pulindas, 530... London1953) Majumdar, Surendra Nath, Ed., The Ancient Geography of India by A. Cunningham, edited with an Introduction and Notes (Calcutta, 1924) Ancient India as Described by Ptolemy by J.McCrindle Inscriptions of Aśoka by D. R. Bhandarkar and Surendra Nath Majumdar (1920). Manjusrimūlakalpa, R. Sankyana's Appendix to Jayaswal's Imperical History Mankad, D. R... tr. Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian (Calcutta, 1920) The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great (Westminister, 1893) Ancient India as Described by Ptolemy, edited by S.N. Majumdar Page 613 Mehendale, H., "Language and Literature", The Age of Imperial Unity, edited by R. C. Majumdar and A. D. Pusalker (Bhāratiya Vidyā ...

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... science of the so-called Hellenistic period in Greece and Alexandria had reached a high level of development with figures of genius like Archimedes, Eratosthenes, Aristarchus of Samos, Hipparchus and Ptolemy. Marvin Minsky regrets the course history has taken, for he is of the opinion that science could now already have been much more advanced “if its progress had not succumbed to the spread of monotheistic... would probably wonder at the cosmological marvels and riddles that have been discovered since he made his voice heard. The picture of the cosmos has changed in amazing ways since Aristotle, then Ptolemy, then Copernicus, Galileo and Newton, then Einstein, and it is changing today with the powerful telescopes on and above earth. Another question altogether is whether all this has taken the human being ...

... dinarius (whence the Gupta dinara is dated) in India is of the last quarter of the first century B.C. Sethna shows that the earliest denarii go back to 268 B.C. and it is around 264 B.C. that Ptolemy II sent an emissary from Egypt to India.  Therefore, the reference to dinara in the Gadhwa Stone inscription of the Gupta Era 88 can certainly be in 277 B.C. A fourth error corrected is that ...

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... devastated Pithuda, the capital of a king of the Masulipatam region of the Madras State. Kharavela's Pithuda seems to be the same as Pitundra, metropolis of the Masoloi, according to the geographer Ptolemy (c. 140 A.D.). And both the names appear to resolve into the Sanskrit Prithuda. Now we may turn to the religious aspect of Prithu to match that of Dionysus. Although king, he carried on profound ...

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... Antigonous, who gradually acquired a great part of Asia and aimed at sole sovereignty over Alexander's empire. Against him and his son Demetrius in long years of fighting was arrayed a coalition of Ptolemy of Egypt, Seleucus of Babylon, Lysimachus of Thrace, and Cassander, son of Antipater of Macedonia. The monarchy, by which the unity of the empire could still be formally maintained, soon disappeared; ...

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... where Sri Aurobindo ultimately fixed his permanent dwelling in Pondicherry. The current Tamil name Puducheri ("New Town") seems also to be of considerable antiquity, and was referred to as "Poduka" by Ptolemy of the second century A.D. and by still earlier writers as well. Pondicherry, then, although superficially so barren and unpromising in 1910, had had its remote days of renown and glory, and therefore ...

... sacrifices in the proper way. "Buddhism came and went, and then in the first and second centuries of our era we find on that same Coromandel Coast a Roman settlement mentioned in the Periple by Ptolemy of Alexandria. Heavily loaded ships from the far Mediterranean, swept by the constant trade winds, arrived via Cleopatra's Nile - Red Sea Canal at Poduke as our town was then called. A Roman emporium ...

... , 282 Proto-Indo-European, 266, 282 Proto-Indo-Europeans, 263, 276-7 Proto-Iranian, 282 Proto-South Aryans, 208 Proto-Zoroastrians, 210 Ptolemy (Geography), 206 Pulindas, 296 Punjāb, 163, 182, 186, 212, 216, 238-41, 283 Pundras, 296 pur/pura (= nagara), 192, 196, 197 pur/purah, 298-305, 337 ...

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... expanded into most delicate cartilage surround and support the said muscle. In fifteen entire figures there shall be revealed to you the microcosm on the same plan as before me was adopted by Ptolemy in his cosmography; and I shall divide them into limbs as he divided the macrocosm into provinces; and I shall then define the functions of the parts in every direction, placing before your eyes ...

... "alive." A place where one has no ideas, so obviously one is not dead or living—one simply is. We are probably as fossilized in our idea of life versus death—or simply life—as is the old atlas of Dr. Ptolemy. We have stopped inventing life: we are the dead ones. We have completed the map, the only alternative left is to earn our living and make children to fill life up. But after all, perhaps the world ...

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... Brother, brother, We did not dream that all would end like this, When in the dawn or set we roamed at will Playing together in Egyptian gardens, Or in the orchards of great Ptolemy Walked with our arms around each other's necks Twin-hearted. But now unto eternity We are divided. 47 Perseus, The Viziers, Rodogune: one cannot imagine three plays by ...

... Among the ports on the Coromandel coast was one named 'Poduca' in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea} which is none other than Pondicherry. It must have been an important port of call, because Ptolemy the geographer (c.140 AD) also writes about it in his Geography, although he called it 'Poduka.' These names appear to have been derived from 'Puducheri.' When the Europeans came, they too called ...

... to mention the people called Dáoi, as a nomadic tribe of the Persians. More accurate information on them, however, is delivered by Alexander's historians. According to Q. Curtius Rufus (8,3) and Ptolemy's Geography (6,10,2), the Dahas lived on the lower course of the river Margos (modern Murghab) or in the northern steppe area of Margiana. Pomponius Mela (3,42), based on Eratosthenes, tells that ...