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0044 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
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even the regions of the Boths or Bothants to the north, reaches the plains in several
bends and windings, flowing from east to west, — and finally he describes how it
flows out into the sea. He also tells us that by the ignorant people of this region,
the Indus is usually called Nilab, which in Persian means blue water, for the river
has a blue colour on account of its depth in its course from the narrow passages
to the Paropanisadae.¹ I do not know how far back the name Nilab may have been
in use, nor whether it existed at all in old Persian.² But if it did, Arrian's words
of Alexander, when standing on the bank of the Indus: »Nili se caput reperisse
arbitrabatur», have an additional signification.³

Kashmir is familiar to Monserrate. He even explains the etymology of its
name. Still more surprising and interesting is his paragraph (F. 76. b. 4. and
F. 77. a. l. et seq.) about the countries to the west of the Indus. He even mentions
the Xacattaei or Mongoli, the Jagatai.

His orography of Afghanistan may well be said to be some 200 years be-
fore his time. He has just spoken of Kabul, which is famous on account of two
circumstances:

[As being the metropolis of a kingdom, and] — alterum, negotiatorum celebritas:
qui ex India, Persia, et Tartaria, in eam conveniunt. Est enim, in ipsis illorum montium,
ueluti uisceribus, aut corde posita qui ueluti, brachijs quibusdam, in uicinas regiones,
iniectis, Indiam, Sogdianam, Bactrianam, et Tartariam, attingunt.⁴

Hi sunt Caucasius Imaus, qui etiam Caspus. Paharopanisus, et Paharuëtus, quorum
medius, Caucasius est. In eius fronte Chabulum, quod olim (ut remur) Carûra dicebatur
situm est. Paharuëtus, in quo sunt portae, quas supra demonstrauimus, ab austro, Caucasio
obijcitur, Caucasij tergum. Paharopanisus tuetur, ab Aquilone. Dextrum, latus, ab ortu,
Imaus tegit, a sinistro, Paharuëti quaedam flexio, quae deinde, aequali fere ductu, cum
Paharopaniso, interiectis magnis conuallibus, in Aquilonem protenditur. Nostra aetate,
montana haec omnia, a Chabulo, in eo tractu nomen habent; ac Chabuli iuga dicuntur quae
a ueteribus, promiscue, Paharopanisus dicebantur . . . . Ac ne montium nominibus, quispiam
hallucinetur, duo ut sibi persuadeat, necesse est. Alterum, eadem continuatione, uarios
flexus montes habere; et pro eorum uarietate uaria nomina sortiri. Nam (liceat enim
exemplis, rem illustrare) a Geographis Imaus, cum jam Caspius est: et Caucasius, cum jam
Paharopanisus est, et uice uersa nominantur. Alterum, nostro saeculo, longe alijs nominibus
loca haec appellari quam ueterum memoria rerum adhibita, non mediocri, diligentia, uera
loca, uel saltem quae ueris proxime accedunt, nos deprehendisse: vel eo, coeteris certiores,
quod ea oculis conspeximus.

Thus he knows that merchants from India, Persia and Tartary arrive in Kabul,
which, with a very good comparison, is said to be situated, as it were, in the very