Geographical and Economic Studies in the Mahabharata: Upayana Parva c6.51
Geographical and Economic Studies in the Mahābhārata: Upāyana Parva c6.51
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c6.51
Marco Polo (1272—73) speaks of the azure and rubies of Badakhshān which had become famous in the form of Balas.⁹⁰ Captain Wood in his journey to the source of the Oxus heard of the ruby mines twenty miles off Ishkāshm in the district called Gharan on the right bank of the Oxus river⁹² and he personally visited the lapis lazuli mines in the Kokcha Valley.⁹³ The silver mines of Badakhshān were also famous. In the Arab times there were rich silver mines at Anderab and also mines at Wakhān⁹⁴.