Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s2.t2.1

c8.s2.t2.1

The Sogdianoi are bounded on the west by that part of Skythia which extends from the section of the Oxos which is towards Baktriane and Margiane through the Oxeian mountains as far as the section of the river Iaxartes (Syr Darya), which lies in 110°E, 49° N; on the north likewise by a part of Skythia along the section of the Iaxartes extended thence as far as the limit where its course bends, which lies in 120° E, 48° 30' N.; on the east by the Sakai along the bending of the Iaxartes as far as the sources of the bending which lie in 125° E, 43° N, and by the line prolonged from the Sakai to an extreme point which lies in 125° E., 38° 30' N., and on the east and the south and again on the west by Baktriane along the section of the Oxos already mentioned and by the Kaukasian mountains, (eastern extension of the Paropanisos towards the Imaos) especially so-called, and the adjoining line and the limits as stated, and the sources of the Oxos.