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Onesicratos

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  • Onesicritus. Richard Stoneman, Who Are the Brahmans? Indian Lore and Cynic Doctrine in Palladius' De Bragmanibus and Its Models, Classical Quarterly, n.s. vol. 44, no. 2 (1994), pp. 500-510.
  • A companion of Alexander the Great, his testimony is recorded in Strabo's Geography on how the people of Bactria fed the bodies of their dead to dogs especially bred for this purpose.
  • Sent by Alexander to interview the Gymnosophists, he wrote a report that is preserved in part in Strabo.
  • Onesicritus. Bray, Oeconomy, p. 447.