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India: Probably the Eastern Limit of the Kingdom of Ahasuerus Esther 1:1

This is what happened in the days of Xerxes, who reigned over 127 provinces from India to Cush.

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India: Probably the Eastern Limit of the Kingdom of Ahasuerus Esther 8:9

At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

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