India
India, the eastern extent of Ahasuerus' Persian Empire.
The name India means “praise; law”
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Summary
A location first mentioned at Esther 1:1; only referred to as India (הֹ֫דּוּ).
Location
- Certainty
- Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)
- Coordinates
- 23.994° N, 67.431° E
Glossary entries
Alternative names
- הֹ֫דּוּIndia
Mentions
- This is what happened in the days of Xerxes, who reigned over 127 provinces from India to Cush.
- At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.