Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s4.38

c8.s4.38

The city of Kashmir (i.e. Addishtān) covers a space of four farsakh, being built along both banks of the Jailam, which are connected with each other by bridges and ferry-boats. The Jailam rises in the mountains Haramakot (Haramukuṭa, Haramukh), where also the Ganges rises, cold, impenetrable regions where the snow never melts nor disappears. Behind them there is Mahācīn, i.e. Great China. When the Jailam has left the mountains, and has flowed two days' journey, it passes through Addishtān. Four farsakh farther on it enters a swamp of one square farsakh. The people have their plantations on the borders of this swamp, and on such parts of it as they manage to reclaim. Leaving this swamp, the Jailam passes the town Ūshkārā, and then enters the above-mentioned ravine.