Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s1.33

c8.s1.33

64. After this region under the very north, the sea outside ending in a land called This (China, from Ts’in), there is a very great inland city called Thinae (city of the Ts’in) from which raw silk and silk yarn and silk cloth are brought on foot through Bactria to Barygaza, and are also exported to Damirica by way of the river Ganges. But the land of This is not easy of access; few men come from there, and seldom. The country lies under the Lesser Bear, and is said to border on the farthest parts of Pontus and the Caspian Sea, next to which lies Lake Maeotis; all of which empty into the ocean.