Jaxartes : river of central Asia (now called Syr Darya) flowing west into the Aral Sea.
... Irān, and that history has several mysterious points. The account of the displacement of the Śakas from beyond the Jaxartes by the Yueh-chi we owe to the Chinese 3 and, according to the Chinese, "the Śakas were... successively driven by the Yueh-chi from the valley of the Jaxartes to that of the Oxus, and then to Ki-pin." 4 Ki-pin is either Kāpisa (Kāffiristān) or Kāshmir or a combination of parts... losing Alexander's Indian conquests to Sandrocottus and ceding to him in 305 B.C. the Greek satrapies west of the Indus, he remained king over all Persia right up to the north-eastern limit of the Jaxartes. Such too was the son of Seleucus, Antiochus I Sôter (born 324 or 323 B.C.) whom his father made king of the eastern provinces in 293 B.C. and who during this part sovereignty of Seleucus's empire... 4. Ibid., p. 121. Page 458 pointed out that the tide must have been actually flowing from the time when the Śakas had been displaced by the Yueh-chi from their home beyond the Jaxartes in the second century B.C." 1 How the Śakas who poured into Eastern Irān came thence to India is explained: 2 "The Parthian emperors who were then in possession of eastern Irān struggled hard ...
... Oxus and the Jaxartes flow northwards in the direction of the Aral Sea. Page 284 The Rigveda's river Rasā Rasā, in the Rigveda, does not have one single sense. The river-list 10,75 suggests a geographical series in which the Rasā is certainly a far northern river, yet just as certainly not the farthest and northernmost nor identical with the Oxus or the Jaxartes. The geo... the opposite trek should be quite on the cards. Together with speakers of allied tongues, our Indo-Irānians lived for a long time in a broad region including the valley of the Oxus and the Jaxartes as well as the steppes and probably still more northern latitudes. They adopted it as their home to all intents and purposes, the Airiydnam vaējo of which the Avesta speaks. On their western flank... with the Panis on its far side, be in the region of the Hindukush? The Vendīdād's geographical list goes from north to south and its Ranhā, which is frequently identified by scholars with the river Jaxartes, the Syr Darya of the Persian inscriptions, has been a puzzle. Parpola hardly lessens the puzzle by writing in his footnote: "Considering the situation of the Iranian Parnoi... and the importance ...
... Indian occupation of Afghanistan in those days". 24 The sole index to Central Asia is the naming of the river Rasā in stanza 6. Rasā has been phonetically equated to the Iraniān Ranhā, the river Jaxartes. It is difficult to understand how this reference or any other allusion of a similar sort could illuminate the course of the Indo-Aryan advent from a foreign region. Small contacts with a few foreign ...
... Indus Valley, 2, 11, 38, 49, 62 Innar, 89 Iron, 37-8, 104, 105 Jackson, 84 Jairazbhoy, R. A., 33fn., 89fn. Jamdat Nasr period, times, 58, 73 Jaxartes, 13, 77 Johnson, Samuel, 91 Joshi, J.P., 9, 37, 49fn. Kabul, 14 Kalash Kafirs, 86-7 Kalibangan, 46, 49, 63-4, 100 Karpāsa in Prehistoric India: A ...
... A., 239, 240, 326, 288-90 Jalauka, 48 Jambudvīpa, 57, 58 Janamajaya, 543 Jātakas, 255, 309 Javan, 258 Javandniyā', 253 Jayasena, 25 Jayaswal.K. P., 425 Jaxartes, 459 Jayadāman, 468, 472 Jericho, iv, v, 453 Jerome Biblical Commentary, 259 Jhelum (Hydaspes), 100 Jivita-gupta, 486-88 Jogalthembi hoard, 469 Johares, 94, 95 Jolly ...
... Jakheran, U.P., 212, 242 jana, 328, 331fn. Jarrige, Jean-François, 205, 226, 228, 231, 236, 244, 255, 257, 265, 279 jatavedas , 343 Jaxartes, 270, 284, 285 Jorwe culture, 215, 216, 219 Joshi, J.P., 241 Jumna, see Yamuna Kachi plain (see also Pirak), 205, 227, 230, 236 KakŚivan, 411 ... 332 sveta, 243, 340 Svetya, 284 Swar, 195, 348-9, 407 Swat river/valley, 211, 212, 219, 226, 232, 283, 322, 325 śyāmāyas, 235-6 Syr Darya (Jaxartes), 284 Syria, 157, 202, 211 Tabiti-Hestia, 314, 318 Tacitus, 207 Tagar culture, 323 Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, 236 Taittirīya Saṁhitā, 152, 299, 344 ...
... fathers who saw not the Greeks round their ramparts: They were not cooped by an upstart race in the walls of Apollo, Saw not Hector slain and Troilus dragged by his coursers. Far over wrathful Jaxartes they rode; the shaken Achaian Prostrate adored your strength who now shouts at your portals and conquers Then when Antenor guided Troy, this old man, this traitor, Not Laocoon, nay, not even Paris ...
... chamber. Antiochus, with a map before him. ANTIOCHUS Ecbatana, Susa and Sogdiana, The Aryan country which the Indus bounds, Euphrates' stream and Tigris' golden sands, The Oxus and Jaxartes and these mountains Vague and enormous shouldering the moon With all their dim beyond of nations huge; This were an empire! What are Syria, Greece And the blue littoral to Gades? They are Too ...
... they migrated westward, in the course of their march they met, defeated and dispersed, as Chinese sources narrate, "the Sae, Sai or Sek (Śaka) dwelling in the plains on the northern bank...of the Jaxartes..." 2 We must be careful to avoid mixing up the two tribes. "It is now generally accepted," Richard N. Frye' tells us, "that we are not to identify the Yue-chih with the Śakas", and India was quite ...
... Tripolye in the Ukraine 74 Belt of Aryanism from Tripolye to Rigvedic India which was the most advanced part 74-75 9. Airiyānam vaējo in the oxus-Jaxartes plains ? 77 Final origin of the Aryans still a mystery 77 Possibly an almost world-wide common Aryan culture in antiquity with perhaps India its centre but ...
... belt? We have already noticed the Irānian Aryans' tradition of an ancient home, Airiyānam vaējo. E. Herzfeld believes that the Avesta locates it distinctly in "the vast plains of the Oxus and the Jaxartes". 1 But, even if he proves right, the region from which those Aryans who became the Irānians derived need not have been the ultimate home of all the Aryans. The absence of any suggestion of it in ...
... Indian occupation of Afghanistan in those days". 25 The sole index to Central Asia is the naming of the river Rasa in stanza 6. Rasa has been phonetically equated to the Iranian Ranha, the river Jaxartes. It is difficult to understand how this reference or any other allusion of a similar sort could illuminate the course of the Indo-Aryan advent from a foreign region. Small contacts with a few foreign ...
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