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0088 Southern Tibet : vol.1
南チベット : vol.1
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direct north of Kashmir. ¹ The list of different opinions could easily be multiplied,
but the task would be useless. ² On his most interesting and instructive map:
»Zentralasien zur Zeit der alten Handelsbeziehungen zwischen China und den Ira-
nisch-Turanischen Ländern« Dr. A. Herrmann identifies the Sera metropolis with
Liang-chow and the Casii Montes with the northern border ranges of the Kwen-lun.
Comparing the Casii Montes with the Oechardes, and accepting this river, beyond
doubt, as the Tarim, the Casii Montes must of course be the Kwen-lun. Richthofen
also identifies the Casii Montes with the Kwen-lun, though only the western part.
In fact the Casii Montes are the same as the Chinese Tsung-ling or »the Onion
mountains«. Therefore the space which, on Ptolemy's map, is situated between the
Casii Montes and Emodus and its eastern continuation, should belong to the Tibetan
highlands. And as there is only one river, the Bautisus, flowing from west to east,
only the Tsangpo could be meant. And still I believe that the Bautisus is meant
to be the Tarim, or, in other words, that this river has been represented twice
on Ptolemy's map. Ptolemy has got his information from merchants, who, them-
selves, had been informed by natives and travellers. It would not be surprising if
Ptolemy had misunderstood his different direct or indirect informants and believed
that what he heard about the Tarim, from two different informants, in fact referred
to two different rivers. ³

Therefore, where Richthofen finds a striking correspondence between the
Auxakian, Kasian and Emodus mountains with the Tian-shan, Kwen-lun and Hima-
laya, this correspondence is chimerical. The northern slopes of the Casii Montes
are the same as the northern slopes of the Emodus; therefore the Tarim river ap-
pears twice. In reality there is no sign of Tibet on Ptolemy's map, much less of
any Tibetan river. The Kwen-lun and the Himalaya, inclusive, of course, of all the
rest of Tibet with Arka-tag, Kara-korum and Transhimalaya, or in one word the