Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s2.t3: V. Skythia beyond the Imaos (Book VI, Chapter 15)
Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s2.t3
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V. Skythia beyond the Imaos (Book VI, Chapter 15)
c8.s2.t3.1
1. Skythia beyond Mount Imaos is bounded on the west by Skythia within the Imaos, and the Sakai along the whole curvature of the mountains towards the north, and on the north by the unknown land, and on the east by Serike in a straight line whereof the extremities lie in 150°, 63°, and 160°, 35°, and on the south by a part of India beyond the Ganges along the parallel of latitude which cuts the southern extremity of the line just mentioned.
c8.s2.t3.2
2. In this division is situated the western part of the Auxakian mountains whose extremities lie in 149°, 49°, and 165°, 54°, and the western part of the mountains called Kasia whose extremities lie in 152°, 41°, and 162°, 44°, and also the western portion of the Emodos (Himādri, Eastern Himalayas) whose extremeties lie in 153°, 36°, and 165°, 36° ; and towards the Auxakians, the source of the river Oikhardes lying in 153°, 51°.
c8.s2.t3.3
3. The northern parts of this Scythia are possessed by the Abioi Scythai, and the parts below them by the Hippophagoi Scythai, after whom the territory of Auxakitis extends onward, and below this again, at the starting place already mentioned, the Kasian land, below which are the Khatai Scythai, and then succeeds the Akhasa land, and below it, along the Emoda, the Kharaunaioi Scythai.
c8.s2.t3.4
4. The towns in this division are these—
c8.s2.t3.5
| Auxakia | ... | 143°, | 49° 40' |
| Issedon Scythike | ... | 150°, | 49° 30' |
| Khaurana | ... | 150°, | 37° 15' |
| Soita | ... | 145°, | 35° 20' |