Keywords: Depictions of episodes from Hindu mythology.jpg en Philippus Baldaeus ™s 17th-century account of Ceylon and the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of India included cultural as well as geographical information His depictions of episodes from Hindu mythology were almost certainly based on Indian originals Baldaeus spent the years 1658 to 1665 in Ceylon and his extensive and factual account contributed to Europeans ™ understanding that eastern civilizations had literary and iconographic traditions as complex and sophisticated as those of the western world CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BALDAEUS NAAUKEURIGE BESCHRYVINGE ¦ 1672 1672 http //www saudiaramcoworld com/issue/200504/the leek-green sea htm Philippus Baldaeus PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Mythology |