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Southern Tibet : vol.1 |
| 南チベット : vol.1 |
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had been derived from Mus(-tag),¹ which is of course an anachronism. PLINY
correctly says: ›Imaus, incolarum lingua nivosum significante.‹ Himalaya means in
Sanscrit ›abode of snow‹. Often it is contracted to Himâla, and sometimes the
forms Hemaghiri, Hemachal, Hemakuta are used, meaning Mount Hema or ›the
mountain of snow‹. Himavata and Himavat are adjectives meaning snowy, winterly.
In vulgar pronunciation this becomes Imaot, from which the classical Imaus and
Emodus have been derived.²
Strabo pays a good deal of attention to the two famous rivers Indus and
Ganges. All the classical authors agree in placing the sources of the two rivers on
the southern side of the great mountain-wall north of India, proving that absolutely
nothing was known of the country beyond, the country which is now called Tibet.
That Strabo places the source of the Indus not far above the Ganges, where the
river issues from the mountains, is seen by the description of Alexander's conquest
of the rock Aornus, which Hercules had twice in vain attempted to conquer, and
where it is said that Aornus was situated near the source of the Indus.³
Strabo tells us that in his time the most important of the tributaries of the
Indus were known, as well as the country round them, and he gives a very good
description of the hydrography, adding that, for the rest, more was unknown than
known.⁴ And after relating the names of the principal tributaries, he goes on to
say that they all join the Indus, and that Hypanis is the farthest. There are 15
tributaries worth mentioning. It would take centuries upon centuries before Europe
got at all such a correct description of the general hydrography of India as that
given by Strabo.⁵
Regarding the general situation of the Ganges, Strabo quotes Artemidorus,
saying that the river comes down from the Emodian mountains. Artemidorus
mentions among its tributaries the Oedanes and knows that it contains crocodiles
and delphines . . . Dr. A. FORBIGER is convinced that the Oedanes is the same
river that CURTIUS calls Dyardenes, of which he tells exactly the same story, add-
ing that this river ›minus celeber auditu est, quia per ultima Indiæ currit‹. Forbiger
cannot agree with those authors who identify the Oedanes with the Iomanes, Jumna.
He considers it more likely that it should correspond to the Brahmaputra, which
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