Indus

The Indus appears in the poem’s explanatory notes as a named river identified with Sindhu. Its significance in the available evidence is chiefly geographical and linguistic: the commentary connects the river’s name across languages rather than describing a particular episode on its banks.

Identification and Naming

A note in the commentary states that Sindhu is the Indus. This identifies the two names as referring to the same river and preserves Sindhu as the form used in the explanatory discussion.

Linguistic Explanation

The note adds that Sanskrit s becomes h in Persian and is dropped by the Greeks. The observation offers a brief account of how the river’s name is represented across languages, placing its identification within the commentary’s wider attention to the names of rivers and places.

Place in the Commentary

The Indus is presented as part of the poem’s geographical vocabulary, among a series of river identifications supplied in the notes. The evidence establishes its name and the commentary’s linguistic comparison, but does not provide a route, a detailed description of its setting, or a specific narrative event associated with it.