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furthest shore of which to the Caspian gates the distance is said to be 1925 miles.[1]
Then next to these towards the Indus come, in an order which is easy to follow, the Amatæ, Bolingæ, Gallitalutæ, Dimuri, Megari, Ordabæ,[2] Mesæ; after these the Uri and Sileni.[3] Immediately beyond come
- ↑ There were two defiles, which went by the name of 'the Kaspian Gates.' One was in Albania, and was formed by the jutting out of a spur of the Kaukasos into the Kaspian Sea. The other, to which Pliny here refers, was a narrow pass leading from North-Western Asia into the north-east provinces of Persia. According to Arrian (Anab. III. 20) the Kaspian Gates lay a few days' journey distant from the Median town of Rhagai, now represented by the ruins called Rha, found a mile or two to the south of Teherân. This pass was one of the most important places in ancient geography, and from it many of the meridians were measured. Strabo, who frequently mentions it, states that its distance from the extreme promontories of India (Cape Comorin, &c.) was 14,000 stadia.
- ↑ v. 1. Ardabæ.
- ↑ In the grammatical apophthegms of Pâṇini, Bhaulingi is mentioned as a territory occupied by a branch of the great tribe of the Śâlvas (Lassen, Ind. Alt. I. p. 613, note, or 2nd ed. p. 760 n.), and from this indication M. de St.-Martin haa been led to place the Bolingæ at the western
Darangæ is the Latin transcription of the name of the great race of the Jhâḍejâs, a branch of the Râjputs which at the present day possesses Kachh. The Buzæ represent the Buddas, an ancient branch of the same Jhâḍejâs (Tod, Annals and Antiq, of the Râj. vol. I. p. 86). The Gogiarei (other readings Gogarasi, Gogaræ) are the Kokaris, who are now settled on the banks of the Ghara or Lower Satlej. The Umbræ are represented by the Umranîs, and the Nerei perhaps by the Nharonis, who, though belonging to Baluchistân, had their ancestral seats in the regions to the east of the Indus. The Nubêteh, who figure in the old local traditions of Sindh, perhaps corresiwnd to the Nobundæ, while the Cocondæ certainly are the Kokonadas mentioned in the Mahâbhârata among the people of the north-west. (See Lassen, Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenl. t. II. 1839, p. 45.) Buchanan mentions a tribe called Kakand as belonging to Gorakhpur.
