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0075 Southern Tibet : vol.1
南チベット : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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between the rivers flowing to the Indian Ocean and those which direct their course
northwards. Later years have shown that the great water-parting is far more com-
plicated than the ancient geographers believed.

The quotations from different writers of Greek and Roman antiquity given
above will be sufficient to represent the standpoint of the knowledge about southern
Asia which existed in those days. Tibet, or rather what we mean under the signi-
fication ›the Tibetan Highland‹ was completely unknown. None of the classical
writers seems to have had the slightest suspicion of this enormous upheaval of the
earth's crust, in fact the highest and largest in the interior of any continent. Of
the sacred lake there is, therefore, of course, no sign. If it be correct that the
Oedanes of Artemidorus and Strabo, and the Dyardenes of Curtius, are one and
the same river and identical with the lower Brahmaputra, this great river should
at least have been known to the ancients. But this is doubtful. So much is per-
fectly sure that the upper, Tibetan course of the river Tsangpo, remained unknown
to them. What they knew comparatively well was the southern front of the Hima-
laya, and the Indus and Ganges from the points, where these rivers emerged from
the mountains.

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