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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[DECEMBER, 1884.
350
30°
Katisa
...118° 40' 37° 30' described as passing through Mount Bagôos, and Niphanda ........................ 119° 37° on the east by Arakhỏsia along the meridian Drastoka ........................116 36° 30' line drawn from an extreme point lying in the Gazaka or Gaudzaka .........118° 30' 36° 15'
country of the Areioi and that of the Paropa5. Naulibis.....................117° 35° 30
nisadai to another extreme point, of which the Parsia..............................113° 30' 35"
position is in .....................111° 30' 28' Lokharna ........................118° 34°
and on the south by a part of Gedrôsia along the Daroakana........................118° 30' 34° 20'
line joining the extreme points already deterKaroura, called also Artospana. 118° Tarbakana ........................114° 20' 33° 40'
mined, passing through the Baitian mountains.
2. There flows through the country a river Bagarda ........................116° 40' 33° 40'
which branches off from the Arabis of which Argouda...........................1:18° 45' 33° 30'
the sources lie ..................109° 32° 30' The tribes for which Paropanisa dai was a collective name were located along the southern and
3. The parts towards Areia are possessed by eastern sides of the Hindu-Kush, which Ptolemy
the Darandai, and those towards Arakhônia calls the Kaukasos, and of which his Paropanison
by the Baktrioi, the country intermediate formed a part. In the tribe which he calls the
is called Tata kenê. Bolita i we may perhaps have the Kabolitae, or 4. The towns and villages of Drangiand people of Kabul, and in the Ambauta i the Am. are said to be these :bashtha of Sanskrit. The Pars y êta i have also Prophthasia ............ ........110° 32° 20' a Sanskrit name-mountaineers,' from parvata,
Rhouda ...........................106° 30' 31° 30' a mountain,' so also the Parautoi of Areia.
Inna .................
........109
31° 30' The principal cities of the Paropanisadai were
Arikada............
.110° 20' 31° 20' Na ulibis and Karoura or Ortospana.
5. Asta ..............
..117° 30' 30° 40' Karoura is also written as Kaboura and in this form makes a near approach to Kabul, with which it has
Xarxiare ............
.106° 2029° 15' been identified. With regard to the other name of
Nogtana ............
........108° 29° 40 this place, Ortospana, Cunningham (Anc. Geog. of
of Pharazana .........
........110° Ind., p. 35) says: "I would identify it with Kabul | Bigis ..................
........111°
29° 40 itself, with its Bala Hisar, or high fort,' which Ariaspe ............
..108° 40' 28° 40' I take to be a Persian translation of Ortospana or Arana..............
........111° 28° 15' Urddhasthana, that is, high place or lofty city."
Drangia no corresponds in general position Ptolemy mentions two rivers that crossed the
and extent with the province now called Seistân. country of the Paropanisadai—the Darga mênes
The inhabitants were called Drangai, Zarangae, from Baktriana that flowed northward to join the
Zarangoi, Zarangaioi and Sarangai. The name, 0108, which Wilson (Ariana Antiqua, p. 160) takes
according to Burnouf, was derived from the to be either the Dehas or the Gori river. If it
Zend word, sarayo, 'a lake,' a word which is was the Dehas, then the other river which
retained in the name by which Ptolemy's Areian Ptolemy does not name, but which he makes to be
lake is now known-Lake Zarah. The district was a tributary of the Kôa, may be the Sarkhåb or mountainous towards Arak hosia, which formed Gori river, which, however, does not join the Kôa its eastern frontier, but in the west, towards but flows northward to join the Ox08. Paniņi Karmania, it consisted chiefly of sandy wastes. mentions Parsusthåna, the country of the Parsus,
On the south it was separated from Gedrosia by the a warlike tribe in this reign, which may correg. Baitian mountains, those now called the Washati. pond to Ptolemy's Parsioi or Parsyetai." The Ptolemy says it was watered by a river derived following places have been identified :
from the Arabis, but this is a gross error, for the Parsiana with Parijshir; Barzaura with
Arabis, which is now called the Purali, flows from Bazárak; Baboran & with Parwan; Dras
the Baitian mountains in'an opposite direction from toka with Istargash; Parsia (capital of the
Drangiana. Ptolemy has probably confounded the Parii) with Farzah, and Lokharna with Lôgarh Arabis with the Etymander or Helmand river which, south of Kabul.
as has already been noticed, falls into Lake Zarah. CAP. 19.
Ptolemy has portioned out the province among POSITION OF DRANGIANE.
three tribes, the Darandai (Drangai P) on the Drangia nd is bounded on the west north, the Baktrioi to the south-east, and the and north by Areia along the line already people of Tatakênê between them.
* Bee Beal's Bud. Rec. of Wn. Count. vol. II, p. 385n,
