At
This Time They Extend Farther, And Border Upon The Kingdom Of Horacam
Or Chorassan, Called Aria, Or Here By
That ancient geographer.
From the extreme north, the Moguls extend to the river Geum or
Jihon, which runs through Bohara
Or Bucharia, the ancient
Bactria, so named from its capital, the celebrated seat of learning
from the time of Zoroaster, and where Avicenna acquired the
knowledge which made him so famous. Bucharia, or Bactria borders
upon Quiximir or Cashmire and Mount Caucasus, which divides India
from the provinces of Tartary in the north. This kingdom of the Moguls
now reaches to the mountainous regions of Parveti and Bagous which
they call Angou [199]. As in this dominion there ace great mountains,
so there are likewise very large and fruitful plains, watered by five
rivers which compose the Indus. These are the Bet, Satinague, Chanao,
Rave, and Rea[200]. The cities of this country are numerous and, the
men courageous.
[Footnote 199: De Faria becomes here unintelligible, unless he here
means the range of mountains which bound Hindostan, particularly on the
north-west, including Cashmir and Cabul; which seems probable as
immediately followed in the text by the Punjab, or country on the
five rivers composing the Indus. - E.]
[Footnote 200: These rivers are so strangely perverted in their
orthography as hardly to be recognisable, and some of them not at all.
The true Punjab or five rivers is entirely on the east of the Indus,
Sinde or Nilab. Its five rivers are the Behut or Hydaspes, Chunab or
Acesinas, Rauvee or Hydraotes, Setlege or Hesudrus, and a tributary
stream of the last named the Hyphasis by the ancients.
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