The region was originally called Sapta Sindhu,[28] the Vedic land of the seven rivers flowing into the sea.[29] The Sanskrit name for the region, as mentioned in the Ramayana and Mahabharata for example, was Panchanada which means "Land of the Five Rivers", and was translated to Persian as Punjab after the Muslim conquests.[30][31] The word Punjab is a compound of the words panj (five) and āb (waters), which are derived from common Indo-Iranaian roots of pancha and ap, respectively. Thus Panjāb roughly means "the land of five rivers".