Kitap 11
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From the Hyrcanian sea to the Arii are about 6000 stadia.From what point our author does not say. Next follow Bactriana, Sogdiana, and lastly nomade Scythians. The Macedonians gave the name of Caucasus to all the mountains which follow after Ariana,There is some confusion in the text, which Groskurd attempts to amend as follows: “But among the barbarians the heights of Ariana, and the northern mountains of India, are separately called Emoda, etc. but among the barbarians the heights and the northern parts of the Parapomisus were called Emoda, and Mount Imaus;B. xv. c. i. § 11. The name is derived from the Sanscrit himavat, which is preserved in the Latin hiems, winter, and in the modern name Himalaya. See Smith, art. Imaus. and other names of this kind were assigned to each portion of this range.
