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    Cosmas Indicopleustes (Koinē Greek: Κοσμᾶς Ἰνδικοπλεύστης, lit. 'Cosmas who sailed to India'; also known as Cosmas the Monk) was a merchant and later hermit...
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    did not patronize Buddhism. The 6th-century Alexandrian traveler Cosmas Indicopleustes states that the Hephthalites in India reached the zenith of its...
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    writers, including Ctesias, Strabo, Pliny the Younger, Aelian, and Cosmas Indicopleustes. The Bible also describes an animal, the re'em, which some translations...
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    five books written by Cosmas Indicopleustes and expanded to ten and eventually to twelve books at around 550 AD. Cosmas Indicopleustes, the author of the...
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  • Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Hofburg, Vienna. Around 550 Cosmas Indicopleustes wrote the copiously illustrated Christian Topography, a work partly...
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  • Look up Cosmas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cosmas or Kosmas is a Greek name (Greek: Κοσμᾶς), from Ancient Greek Κοσμᾶς (Kosmâs), associated with...
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    Library. 1 June 2005. Retrieved 24 October 2012. Cosmas Indicopleustes (2010). The Christian Topography of Cosmas, an Egyptian Monk: Translated from the Greek...
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    not submerged!" "Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography. Preface to the online edition". www.ccel.org. "Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography...
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    Dictionary as the "Dictionary of Malabar and English". From the time of Cosmas Indicopleustes (6th century CE) itself, the Arab sailors used to call Kerala Male...
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  • Lanka (up to 4th century A.D.), Indicopleustes, Cosmas; McCrindle, J. W. (24 June 2010). The Christian Topography of Cosmas, an Egyptian Monk: Translated...
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