Historical Geography of Ancient India c6.663

c6.663

According to Alberuni the upper course of the Indus above the junction with the Chenab was known as Sindhu; lower that point to Aror it was known by the name of Pañcnād, while its course from Aror down to the sea was called Mihran (*India*, I, p. 260). In the Behistun Inscription of Darius it is referred to as Hindu, and in the *Vendidad* as Hendu. The Sindhu lent its name to the country through which it flowed (cf. Beal, *Buddhist Records of the Western World*, I, p. 69; cf. J.A.S.B., 1886, II, p. 323). The *Brihat-saṃhitā* (XIV. 19) mentions it as a river. The Jain *Jambudivapaṇṇati* traces the source of the four rivers called the Gaṅgā, Rohitā (Brahmaputra), Sindhu (Indus) and Harikāntā to the twin lotus lakes, one on the side of the lesser and the other on that of the greater Himalayan range.