Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s2.t2.3

c8.s2.t2.3

3. From these mountains, a good many nameless rivers flow in contrary directions to meet these two rivers, and of these nameless rivers one forms the Oxeian Lake, the middle of which lies in 111° E, 45° N, and other two streams descend from the same hilly regions as the Iaxartes—the regions in question are called the Highlands of the Komedai (Gomeda of the Purāṇas and Kiu-mi-t'o of Hiuen-tsang). Each of these streams falls into the Iaxartes; one of them is called Demos and its sources lie in 124°, 43°; its junction with the river Iaxartes occurs in 123°, 47°. The other is the Baskatis whose sources lie in 123°, 43°; its junction with the river Iaxartes occurs in 121°, 47° 30'.