The classical accounts of India being a compilation of the English translations of the accounts left by Herodutus, MEgasthenes, Arrian, Strabo, Quintus, diodurus Siculus, Justin, Plutarch, Frontinus, Nearchus, Apolonius, Pliny, Ptolemy, Aelian and others - Majumdar, Ramesh Chandra (Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1960)