It is, properly speaking, the mountainous country on both sides of the middle Oxus as far as Badakhshan. Tab., 1180, 7 includes also Shuman and Akhrun, but usually only the country south of the Oxus is understood under this name. Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India - Page 34 by Dineschandra Sircar - 1971 - 400 pages Full view -
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