The Preface.
Phraotes having thus returned that Calumny, which Apollonius bestowed on the Indians, to the Boſom of this conceited Greek, gives him now an Accompt of his own Colledg, I mean the Brachmans, with the Excellent and wholeſom Severity of their Diſcipline. And here I cannot but obſerve the Inſolence of Tyaneus, who being a meer ſtranger in the Indies, notwithſtanding runs into a poſitive Abſurdity, and before he had converſed with the Inhabitants, concludes them no Philoſophers. Theſe bad Manners of his I could (and perhaps not unjuſtly) derive from the Cuſtomary Arrogance of his Country-men, whoſe kindneſs to their own Iſſue diſtinguish’d not the Greeks and the Sages: but the reſt of the world they diſcriminated with a certain Sheep-mark of their own, and branded them with the name of Barbarians. How much an Aſperſion this is, we ſhall quickly underſtand, if we attend the Prince in his Diſcourſe, for thus he inſtructs Apollonius. Amongſt us Indians (ſaith he) there are but few admitted to Philoſophy, and this is the manner of
