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0013 Southern Tibet : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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CONTENTS.

INDIAN, GREEK, ROMAN AND MOHAMMEDAN
GEOGRAPHERS

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CHAPTER I. South-western Tibet in Indian antiquity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
II. The Greeks and Romans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
III. Ptolemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
IV. The Arabian geographers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
V. Later Mohammedan writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

CHINESE AND TIBETAN GEOGRAPHERS

CHAPTER VI. Chinese works on the hydrography of South-western Tibet . . . . 79
VII. Wei-tsang-t'u-chih . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
VIII. The Chinese geographers on the source of the Brahmaputra . . . . 92
IX. The northern tributaries to the Tsangpo . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
X. The source of the Brahmaputra on the Ta-ch'ing map . . . . . . 100
XI. Some descriptions of the Manasarovar and its surroundings . . . 108
XII. The Shui-tao-ti-kang on the source of the Brahmaputra and the Satlej 114
XIII. Manasarovar and surrounding regions in Tibetan works . . . . . 124

EARLY EUROPEAN KNOWLEDGE OF TIBET

CHAPTER XIV. Europe's knowledge of Tibet in the middle ages . . . . . . . . 133
XV. Friar Odoric. — Sir John Mandeville . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
XVI. East Indian travellers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . . . 144
XVII. When did the name Manasarovar become known to Europe? . . . . 154
XVIII. Benedict Goes and Antonio de Andrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157