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Southern Tibet : vol.1 |
| 南チベット : vol.1 |
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could be regarded as a tributary to the Ganges.¹ If he be right, this would prob-
ably be the first time that the Brahmaputra appears in classical literature.
It was well known to Strabo that the natives worshipped the Ganges. With
admirable clearness and perspicacity he describes the monsoon rains, and their in-
fluence upon the volume of water in the rivers, and he knows that the precipita-
tion falls in the mountains in the form of snow.
Pomponius Mela, who wrote in 43 A. D., has a by far more vague and im-
perfect knowledge of India than Strabo and describes only the country situated
between the Indus and Ganges. To him also, both rivers have their sources on
the southern side of Taurus Mons, which, together with Paropamisus and Emodus,
constitutes the great partition wall of the whole continent, from Asia Minor to the
east coast of Asia. And how could he have been able to add anything new to
the conception of Eratosthenes and Strabo! What he has to say of the sources
of the Ganges may be regarded as generally correct.² His view on the source of
the Indus is the ordinary one of his time.³
In his Natural History the elder Pliny, 23—79 A. D. collected the know-
ledge of his epoch. Through the extension of the Roman trade India had become
better known, in spite of which Pliny describes northern India entirely from writers
of Alexander's time or that of their successors. While Strabo quite correctly
placed the source of the Ganges in the Emodi Montes, Pliny says that the sources
of the river are unknown, like those of the Nile, or, as other authors would have
it, were situated in the Scythian mountains. As compared with Strabo his locating
of the source of the Ganges is a step in the wrong direction. And still he is not
at all to be blamed, for cartographers of a much later time have made similar
mistakes.⁴ Pliny also quotes another account of the source of the Ganges, as
breaking out at once in a violent cascade with a loud noise, and gradually lapsing
down into a gentle and placid stream, after taking its abode in a certain lake. A
lake in connection with the Ganges, — one almost hopes a mistake of the same kind
as that of Desideri and d'Anville, and that the lake should be the Manasarovar!
But no, there is no sign of our lake, which, however, long before Pliny's days had
been praised in the Ramāyāna and Mahābhārata. And Pliny does not give us
any indication of the geographical site of his lake.⁵
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