Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s2.t1.58

c8.s2.t1.58

55. And further, all the country along the rest of the course of the Indus is called by the general name of Indo-Scythia (Śakasthāna). Of this, the insular portion formed by the bifurcation of the river towards its mouth is Patalene (Pātāla), and the region above this is Abiria (Ābhīra), and the region about the mouths of the Indus and the Gulf of Kanthikos (Kutch) is Syrastrene (Surāṣṭra). The towns of Indo-Scythia are these : to the west of the river at some distance therefrom—