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(Herodotus' account of India starts a bit earlier) Herodotus, 3. 102-105 "Other Indians live near the city Kaspatyrus and the Paktyic country, north of the rest of Indian, and these Indians live most like the Bactrians and are most bellicose. These are the Indians sent for gold in the area made desolate by the sands.…

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