See also Muir, OST. ii. p. 355.]

[Footnote 12: Lassen, I. p. 616, decided in favor of the
western passes of the Hindukush.]

[Footnote 13: From Kandahar in Afghanistan to a point a
little west of Lahore. In the former district, according to
the Avesta, the dead are buried (an early Indian custom, not
Iranian).]

[Footnote 14: Geiger identifies the Vita[=g]uhaiti or
Vitanghvati with the Oxus, but this is improbable. It lies
in the extreme east and forms the boundary between the true
believers and the 'demon-worshippers' (Yasht, 5, 77; Geiger,
_loc. cit._ p. 131, note 5). The Persian name is the same
with Vitast[=a], which is located in the Punj[=a]b.]

[Footnote 15: On the Kurus compare Zimmer (loc. cit.), who
thinks Kashmeer is meant, and Geiger, loc. cit. p. 39. Other
geographical reminiscences may lie in Vedic and Brahmanic
allusions to Bactria, Balkh (AV.); to the Derbiker (around
Meru? RV.), and to Manu's mountain, whence he descended
after the flood (Naubandhana): _Çatapatha Br[=a]hmana_, I.
8. 1, 6, 'Manu's descent'.]

[Footnote 16: _Arch. Survey_, xiv. p. 89; Thomas, loc. cit.
p. 363.]

[Footnote 17: RV. x. 136. 5.]