Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.71

c8.71

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 188 | Sindhu | A country, famous for its sturdy and speedy horses. | V, 259-G. 46 | the Poh-lu-ka of Yuan Chwang, Watters, I, p. 64 *ff.* It corresponds to the Gobi desert in Central Asia. Cf. for instance, Kauṭilya's *Arthaśāstra*. Bk. II, ch. 30. It is Sindh. |
| 189 | Śimbali | A lake, situated across the seven seas from Jambudīpa, where lived the Supaṇṇas. | III, 91-G. 106 ; VI, 256. | Śimbali is equivalent to Śālmala, a foreign country of the Purāṇas which is identified by De with Chaldia : *I. H. Q.*, II, p. 535 ; *G. D.*, p. 175. Śālmala-Śimbala are Austro-Asiatic words : *Cf.* J. Przyluski in *Pre-Aryan and Pre-Drāviḍian in India*, pp. 7-8. *Cf.* also Śimbala of the *Ṛgveda*, III, 53, 22, taken by Sāyaṇa to denote the flower of the Śālmala or the silk-cotton tree : *Ved. Ind.*, II, 380. So that our lake should be |