Kitap 15
1.11
The western side, from the Caucasian mountains to the Southern Sea, is estimated at 13,000 stadia, along the river Indus to its mouth; wherefore the eastern side opposite, with the addition of the 3000 stadia of the promontory, will be 16,000 stadia in extent. This is both the smallest and greatest breadth of India.The extremity of India, of which Eratosthenes speaks, is Cape Comorin, which he placed farther to the east than the mouth of the Ganges. The length is reckoned from west to east. The part of this extending (from the Indus) as far as PalibothraPatelputer or Pataliputra near Patna, see b. ii. ch. i. § 9. we may describe more confidently; for it has been measured by Schoeni,The reading is σχοινίοις, which Coraÿ changes to σχοίνοις, Schoeni: see Herod. i. 66. The Schoenus was 40 stadia. B. xii. ch. ii. § 12. and is a royal road of 10,000 stadia. The extent of the parts beyond depends upon conjecture derived from the ascent of vessels from the sea by the Ganges to Palibothra. This may be estimated at 6000 stadia.
