The Greeks in Bactria and India c22.40

c22.40

It may however be taken as certain that Chang-k'ien's Ta-yuan, as a state, was larger than Ferghana proper and extended up the river valleys to the Pamir watershed. He says that Ta-yuan borders to the east upon two states, Hau-mi (U-bi), a very small place, and Yu-tien (Hu-tin, Khotan), and that in Yu-tien all the rivers run eastward but that westward of it (i.e. in Ta-yuan) they all run westward.¹⁰ The Saca rulers of Ta-yuan, then, ruled up to the watershed, and may in part have lapped round the Yueh-chi country on its eastern side; and the people in the high valleys may, for all we know, have been part of the Amyrgian Sacas. But this is not what Herzfeld meant (see his plan p. 23); and it is not what Herrmann meant either.