Indians

So I, for my part, know no city more fortunate than this, nor men living better, except the Indians.

They gather, then, each day with children and women to the springs and to the streams of the rivers, playing and laughing, as for a feast.

For there, as they say, rivers flow, not, as among you, of water, but one of milk, another of clear wine, another of honey, another of oil.

And there are among the Indians those who follow the precepts of Buddha, whom, for his surpassing solemnity, they have honoured as a god.

"All that has been said about nature by the ancients is said also among those who philosophize outside Greece — some things among the Indians by the Brahmans, and some in Syria by those called Jews.

and if you say Egyptians or Indians or Babylonians or the Magi themselves, I shall not cease asking for their teacher.

Primum Indis, quos ut extra Ecclesiam positos Pontifici nulla ex parte subditos esse diximus.

neque prodesset Lusitanis etiamsi primi hominum cum Indis habuissent commercia, quod tamen non potest non esse falsissimum.

sicut contra, quod aliae nationes cum Indis contrahere forte neglexerunt, id non Lusitanorum gratia fecisse existimandi sunt, sed quia sibi expedire crediderunt;

Diodorus bestows an encomium upon the Indians, who, in all their wars with each other, forbore destroying or even hurting those employed in husbandry, as being the common benefactors of all.

Among the Indians, as we are informed by Strabo, the person, who had maimed another, was condemned, in addition to the penalty of retaliation, to lose his hand.

and at the same time lay waste the country round about of the Indians and of the Saracens, until all these too come, in a second rank, to be tributary and subject to me.

the Indians suffer themselves to be scorched;

I pass over the Cappadocians, the Syrians, and the beings who inhabit the land of India toward the ends of the earth, all of whom have had the misfortune to suffer many terrible and grievous afflictions.

When they had arrived in Thessaly, Mardonius first chose all the Persians called Immortals, save only Hydarnes their general who said that he would not quit the king's person, and next, the Persian cuirassiers and the thousand horse and the Medes and Sacae and Bactrians and Indians, alike their infantrymen and the rest of the horsemen.

From this many, enjoying that most sweet teaching, withdrew from the bitter darkness of deceit and were added to the sweet light of the truth;

At that time the most holy Thomas also, who was one of the company of twelve disciples of Christ, was sent out to the land of the Indians, proclaiming to them the saving message.

and for this reason many of those who had taken up the monastic order spat alike upon all the delights of this place, and yearned with love for this one thing alone, godliness, and thirsted for death on behalf of Christ, and reached out for the blessedness that comes from thence.