Who are the Brahmans? Indian lore and cynic Doctrine in Palladius' De Bragmanibus and its models

Classical Quarterly 44 (2):500-510 (1994)
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I have devoted a separate study to the question of how far the account in the Alexander Romance of Alexander's meeting with the Naked Philosophers, later known as Brahmans, rests on genuine information about India. My conclusion was that the author of the Romance knew the Alexander historians but did not add any genuine knowledge; and that he incorporated a separate text of Cynic origin, the series of ten questions and answers.

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