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], ] and other greek authors called the Dravidians the ]s. Greek writers sometimes identified the Aethiopians of Egypt with the Eastern Aethiopians. Also the Egyptian and Indian geography were sometimes compared or identified: ] (vi. i.) mentions that the ] River was thought by the ancient ]s to be the source of the ].

] wrote about the Dravidians: ''They differed in nothing from the other Ethiopians, save in their language, and the character of their hair. For the Eastern Ethiopians have straight ], while they of ] are more woolly-haired than any other people in the world. (Herodotus: from The History of the Persian Wars, VII.70., c.430 BCE)''

] also speaks of the ]s or Dravidians. She thought that they may have played a role in the history of Ancient ] and described many parallels between ] and ] in her works.

] remarked: ''A highly advanced urban civilization of ] has been discovered on the ] "between Attock and Sind," exactly the location mentioned in ] as the abode of the ]s.''

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