Dear friends,

allow me to make the following amendments:

Sindhu is the name given to the sacred river by the ancient Indian people. The name can be found in ancient pre-Buddhist Vedic literature. The ancient Greeks, Persians and Chinese also used the word broadly to refer to the people and places around the river and the Indian subcontinent in general.

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Ong Yong Peng wrote:

Indus is the name given to the sacred river by the ancient Indian people. The name can be found in ancient pre-Buddhist Vedic literature. The ancient Greeks, Persians and Chinese also used the word broadly to refer to the inhabitants around the river and the Indian subcontinent.