Book Title: Indian Antiquary Vol 53
Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Stephen Meredyth Edwardes, Krishnaswami Aiyangar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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________________ 173 Rivers. Kumari .. .. Sita .. .. .. .. .. The Syr-daria or the Jaxartos (daria means river). Chakshuvarddhana The Oxos or the Oxus. The Rha or the Volga. Mountains. Meru .. Mt. Imaus. Malaya .. Alana mountain. Sy&ma-giri Kaukasos Mount (including the Beloortag and the Mustag mountain which means the Black mountain. It is identical with Mount Syâmaka of the Avesta (Yast. XIX, 5; SBE, Vol. XXIII, p. 288). Vishnu Pundna, pt. II, ch. 4 ;-Ptolemy (McCrindle's translation, pp. 283-297). Countries. Kusumoda. .. .. .. Inhabited by the Khorasmai (p. 282). Maudádi .. .. .. .. Inhabited by the Mardyenoi (p. 281). River. Ikshu .. .. .. .. .. The Oxos. Mountain. Asta-giri Aska-tangka (tangka means mountain, p. 285). Durga Saila .. The El Burz mountain, as both the words Durga and Burz mean a fort (see my Rasta la or the Under-World). Town. MArkanda .. .. .. .. Samarkand (p. 274), the capital of Sogdo or Sogdiana, called Maracanda (Bretschneider's Mediæval Researches, II, p. 58; McCrindle's Invasion of India by Alexander the Great, p. 40). It should be noted that in Sakadvipa, the river Hiranvati (the river of gold) mentioned in the Mahabharata (VI, ch. 8), forming the boundary of the country of the Suparnas or Garudas, is evidently Zarafshan, the distributor of gold) It is the river Hataki-Nads of Rasktala of the Bhagavata (V, ch. 24). It rises in the Fan-tau mountains and falls into Kara-kul lake. Babala-The capital of Madradesa (Mahabharata, Sabha, ch. 32). It has been identified by Cunningham with Sanglawala-Tiba on the Apaga river west of the Ravi in the district of Jhang in the Panjab. But this identification has been proved to be erroneous, it has boen identified with Chuniot or Shakkot in the Jhang district. But Dr. Fleet ha identified

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