[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Latin](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la) › [Principate (31 BCE – 300 CE)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial) › [Pliny the Elder, Natural History](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.pliny-elder) › 6.63 # Pliny the Elder, Natural History 6.63 Naturalis historia 6.63 - **Language:** Latin ### [6.63](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.pliny-elder.6.63) reliqua inde Seleuco Nicatori peragrata sunt: ad SydrumCLXVIIII, lomanem amnem tantundem — aliqua exemplaria adiciunt V??? passuum—, inde ad Gangen CXII. D, ad RhodaphanDLXVIIII — alii CCCXXV in hoc spatio produnt —, ad Callinipaza oppidum CLXVII.D — alii CCLXV —, inde ad confluentem Iomanis et Gangis DCXXV — plerique adiciunt XIII.D —, ad oppidum Palibothra CCCCXXV, ad ostium Gangis DCXXXVII.D. gentes, > The remaining distances beyond the above point were ascertained on the expedition of Seleucus Nicator. They are, to the river Sydrus, one hundred and sixty-eight miles; to the river Jomanes, the same; some copies, however, add to this last distance five miles; thence to the Ganges, one hundred and twelve miles; to Rhodapha, five hundred and sixty-nine—though, according to some writers, this last distance is only three hundred and twenty-five miles; to the town of Calinipaxa, one hundred and sixty-seven, according to some, two hundred and sixty-five; thence to the confluence of the river Jomanes and Ganges, six hundred and twenty-five; most writers, however, add thirteen miles to this last distance; thence to the city of Palibothra, four hundred and twenty-five—and thence to the mouth of the Ganges, six hundred and thirty-seven miles and a half. > — John Bostock & Henry Thomas Riley 1855, The Natural History of Pliny - [Previous: 6.62](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.pliny-elder.6.62) - [Next: 6.64](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.pliny-elder.6.64) - [Up: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.pliny-elder.6) ## Translations (1) - [The Natural History of Pliny](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.pliny-elder~en-bostock-riley.6.21.5) — John Bostock & Henry Thomas Riley 1855, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.pliny-elder.6.63](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.pliny-elder.6.63) · Pramāṇa