Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s2.t2.4

c8.s2.t2.4

4. The country towards the Oxeian mountains is possessed by the Paskai, and the parts towards the most northern section of the Iaxartes by the Iatioi, and the Tokharoi (Tukhāra), below whom are the Augaloi; then along the Sogdian mountains the Oxydrangkai and the Drybaktai, and the Kandaroi, and below the mountains the Mardyenoi (Uttara-Madra), and along the Oxos the Oxeianoi and the Khorasmioi (Khiva), and farther east than the above, the Drepsianoi, and adjoining both the rivers, and still further east than the above, the Anieseis along the Iaxartes, and the Kirrhadai or Kirrhodeeis (Kirāta) along the Oxos, and, between the Kaukasos range and the Imaos, the country called Ouandabanda (Badakshan).