The Classical Accounts of India c12.s2.2

c12.s2.2

In the Third Book of his Geography Eratosthenes divides the inhabited world into two parts by a line drawn from west to east, parallel to the equatorial line......As an evidence of this he argues that the most southerly capes of India rise opposite to the regions about Meroe, and from the capes on to the most northerly regions of India at the Caucasus Mountains,⁴¹ Patrocles says the distance is fifteen thousand stadia; but the distance from Meroe to the parallel of Athens is surely about the same, and therefore the northerly parts of India, since they join the Caucasus Mountains, come to an end in this parallel.⁴²