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The races which we may enumerate without being tedious, from the chain of Emodus, of which
1671/2 miles. Others gire 265 miles." But M. de St.-Martin prefers to think that the D has, by some mangling of the text, been detached from the beginning of the second number, with which it formed the number DLXV., and been appended to the first, being led to this conclusion on finding that the number 565 sums up almost to a nicety the distance from the Hesidrus to Kalinipaxa, as thus:—
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From the Hesidrus to the Jomanes 168 miles.
From the Jomanes to the Ganges 112 miles.„
Prom the Ganges to Rhodopha 119 miles.„
From Rhodopha to Kalinipaxa 167 miles.„
Total 566 miles.
Pliny's carelessness in confounding total with partial distances has created the next difficulty, which lies in his stating that the distance from Kalinipaxa to the confluence of the Jomanes and the Ganges is 625 miles, while in reality it is only about 227. The figures may be corrupt, but it is much more probable that they represent the distance of some stage on the route remoter from the confluence of the rivers than Kalinipaxa. This must have been the passage of the Jomanes, for the distance—
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From the Jomanes to the Ganges is 112 miles.
Thence to Rhodopha 119 miles.„
Thence to Kalinipaxa 167 miles.„
Thence to the confluence of the rivers. 227 miles.„
Total 625 miles.
This is exactly equal to 5000 stadia, the length of the Indian Mesopotamia or Doâb, the Panchâla of Sanskṝit geography, and the Antarvêda of lexicographers.
The foregoing conclusions M. de St.-Martin has summed up in the table annexed:—
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Roman miles. Stadia.
From the Hesidrus to the Jomanes. 168 1344
From the Jomanes to the Ganges 112 896
Thence to Rhodopha 119 952
From the Hesidrus to Rhodopha by a more direct route 325 2600
From Rhodopha to Kalinipaxa 167 1336
Total distonce from the Hesidrus to Kalinipaxa 565 4520
From Kalinipaxa to the confluence of the Jomanes and Ganges (227) (1816)
Total distance from the passage of the Jomanes to its confluence with the Ganges 625 6000
