The Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society

In the south the boundary of India beyond the Ganges was the Indian Ocean and a portion of the sea called Prasodes which beginning in the west from the island Menutbesias situated on the African cost is bounded by a parallel towards the south and.reaches the country opposite to the great bay'. [...] if we lierwith compare the data of Ptolemy ' he ascribes a south-eastern direction to the coast of trans-Gangetic India from the mouth of the Dorios riVeicor' the great eastern arm of the Menam as far as the Seros or Kamboja river the frontier of the great bay in the country of the Sinai. [...] Thirdly in favour of this view the whole drawing of Ptoletny's map militates and fourthly the circumstance that according to the former views the extent of coast from the eastermost mouth of the Ganges or of the Megna and of the mouth of the Katabeda would fall away."VOL. [...] The nation of the tbakinfai next bounding the Indraprathai on the S. must according to the preceing determinations have been settled between Mogaung in the W. and the Sineshan in the E. East of them Ptolemy places the Domasai and S. of them the Nangalogai whose name means according to him World of the naked ones" ; the dwelling-seats of the latter extend to the mountain Maiandros2. [...] To the former nation we must appropriately assign the forest-mountains of the Ka-Khyan in the E. of the preceding nation and of the Irhvadi with an undetermined frontier towards the N because the northern frontier &lain of mountains between the Tisth and the transruption of the Kamboja river had obtained its names from it wherefrom it follows that its dwelling-places extend to the foot of the