Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c7.s1.8

c7.s1.8

1. Vy, Bmd, Krm, Mts—शतद्रुश्चन्द्रभागा च; cf. Vmn—शतद्रुश्चन्द्रिका नीला. The Śatadru is the modern Satlaj. It is the Vedic Śutudri and the Zaradros or Hesydrus of the Classical writers. The Chandrabhāgā is the modern Chenab which is the same as Asiknī of the Vedic literature and the Acesines of the Classical authors. Ptolemy calls it Sandabala or Sandabal. The Nilāb referred to by Vmn reminds us of the name Nilāb applied by the early Muslim writers to a part of the river Indus (cf. Ray, DHNI, I, p. 84).