Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s2.t2.14

c8.s2.t2.14

1. Scythia within the Imaos is bounded on the west by Sarmatia in Asia along the side already traced, on the north by an unknown land, on the east by Mount Imaos ascending to the north pretty nearly along the meridian of the starting place already mentioned as far as the unknown land—140°, 63°, on the south and also on the east by the Sakai and the Sogdianoi and by Margiane along their meridians already mentioned as far as the Hyrkanian Sea at the mouth of the Oxos, and also by a part of the Hyrkanian Sea lying between the north of the Oxos and the river Rha (Volga) according to such an outline.