The Commentary of Father Monserrate 3.1.6

3.1.6

On the north and in the direction of the Circius it is bounded by Mount Imaus (which is now called by its inhabitants Cumaunius), by the river Indus, and by the Paharopanisus. In the south its limits are the Gangetic gulf and various inland regions which adjoin the territories of Narsinga and Bisnaga to the north of the Pandae. Further west its southern boundary is found by Ariacum, which lies next Goa, and Cuncanum, which is now called Canaia, and the country of the Sedani, who live close to Xeulum and are called Deccanici. In the west it is bounded by the coast of Gedrosia and the Indian Ocean, and in the east by the regions of the Emodi which extend far towards the sunrise, and by the great estuary of the Ganges, which flows from the same mountains as the Jomanes, but from a different fountain-head and by a different course. However I must remind the reader that my task is not a general description of India, but merely an account of the empire of Equebarus. Of late he has added to that empire, partly by force of arms and partly by voluntary surrender, most of Gedrosia. Hence it may well be believed that the circuit of the whole of his dominions is more than 20,000 miles, and that they lie in the heart of what the ancients called 'India within the Ganges,' the land which according to the historians of antiquity, was reached by Alexander the Macedonian, and which was first evangelized, according to the Christian Fathers, by St. Bartholomew. St.