Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s2.t1.110

c8.s2.t1.110

1. India beyond the Ganges is bounded on the west by the river Ganges; on the north by parts of Scythia and Serike (see below), on the east by the Sinai (Chinese) along the Meridian, which extends from the furthest limits of Serike to the Great Gulf, and also by this gulf itself, on the south by the Indian Ocean and part of the Green Sea which stretches from the island of Menouthias in a line parallel to the equator, as far as the regions which lie opposite to the Great Gulf.