Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c8.s3.90

c8.s3.90

The Vakrānta country is said to have extended from the Karatoyā as far as Hiṅgulāja and abounded in a large number of Mlecchas. The Karatoyā river mentioned here is not easy to identify; but the reference to the Hiṅlāj area as one of the bordering regions suggests that Vakrānta-deśa is possibly not Wakhan, but very probably Makran between Baluchistan and Persia. Pargiter¹ notices three Karatoyās; the first a tributary of the Brahmaputra in North Bengal, the second belonging to the Himalayan region in North India and the third rising from the Vindhyan range. The second seems to be indicated in the verse; but the plurality of the name may have been caused by wrong readings.