Indian Antiquary Vol 04

SR No.: 032496
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 410
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[SEPTEMBER, 1875.
matter: it begins with the nature of Ptolemy's with Mannert that "the names Goaris and Binda dats, and the manner of dealing with them. The really stand for Godavari and Bhim, of data he thinks must have consisted of (1) coasting which Ptolemy had got an inkling from some itineraries of seamen or merebants; (2) routes of Dekhan itinerary, naming the rivers but not their foreign traders or travellers ; (3) lists of rivers, with direction." So far as the Goaris is concerned the mountains in which they rise; and (4) partial this is satisfactory, for Nasika and Baithana or lists of the nations of India. Much of this material Paithana are both placed on it, or rather on "was before Ptolemy only in the form of mape the river froin which it takes off. The Binda, already compiled. His process seems to have which Lassen identifies with the Vaithar na river been from these, and from the other data in his in the North Konkan, we might be inclined to possession, to compile his own map, modified by regard as the Kâmwâdt, or Bhivandi creek, his judgment and his theories': then to cover which falls into the Thâņa creek, were it not that it this with a graticulo of meridians and parallels; is so small & stream. The estuary of tho U1&s, and finally to draw up his tables, and the | however, seems to suit as well, as far as locality miscellaneous particulars embodied with his tables, is concerned, and it is a noble river from the directly from the map as it now lay before him. point of junction with the Kalu, eight miles An illustration of this process is seen in his above Kalyan, to its entrance into the Than creek; anonymous tributaries of the Ganges and Indus, but if Ptolemy's Binda cannot be identified with of which he assigns the exact sources and con- either of these, there is no serious objection to, and fluence., in latitude and longitude, whilst he even a probability in favour of, Col. Yule's suggescannot give their names. Plainly, he took these tion that it must stand for the Bhima. Tynna numerical indications from the map before him, and Moesolus he would identify with the Pin&ki and the streams themselves in the first instance or Pennar and the Krishna. The Orudia moun. from maps already compiled or sketched by tains, hitherto identified with the Eastern Ghats, others." Material apparently so derived must then Yule makes the Vaidurya or northern section be dealt with cautiously, and not made arbitrarily of the Sahyadri range, and with apparently to cover the whole surface of India, which could good reason. not all be equally well known to him. Moreover, The west coast line wag, of course, the best his divisions, as Col. Yule remarks, "are hetero- known of any part of India to Alexandrian mergeneous. Some are political ; such as Pandion's chants, and much attention had been given by Dr. Kingdom, and probably Larike and Ariake. Mae- Vincent and others to the geography of the Peri. solia may be a foreigner's handy generalization, plus, &c. and the identification of the ports on it, like the Carnatic'; Indo-Skythia may be either but with less success than might have been exof these; a great part are ethnic, and seemingly pected. Nusaripa, Suppara, Tyndis, Muriris, &c., derived from what we may call Pauranic lists, e.g. were either not identified at all, or incorrectly. Phyllitae, Ambastae; some from the same lists That the first two are represented by Naugari are no divisions at all, ethnic or otherwise, but and Supára (a little north of Bassein) was first mere indiertions of peculiar communities, such as pointed out in an ephemeral tract* a few years
Tabassi, T&pasas or ascetics in the woods of ago; and Muziris is now shown to be not Man.. Khandesh, and Gymnosophisto, probably similar galur, but Muyiri. Kodu, opposite to Kodan. gatherings of eremites about Hardwar." Then galdr; Tyndis may be Kadalundi, i.e. Kadal Ptolemy had no means of properly co-ordinating Tindi, a few miles north of Tanur, near Bêpur; the various materials he had, so that, in various and Nelkynda the same as Kallada; while the instances, cities said to belong to certain nations district of Limyrike (Acuvpuan), or rather Alpenreally did not; and to overlook this, as Lassen Damir-ike, is the Tami)-speaking country; and has apparently donc, is sure to lead to mistakes. Ariake the Aryan-speaking country.
Colonel Yule would be the last to suppose that Simylla emporium, also called Timula, and by eren all the identifications he himself has not the Arabs Çaimur or Jaimur, which Kiepert marked as doubtful will be accepted as final; but has at Bassein, is removed to Chault-a much many of them are such as will be generally re- more satisfactory identification. Other positions, ceived as satisfactory. We can only notice a few
however, must still be considered very doubtful. of them. When we attempt to identify Ptolemy's Sazantium is placed at Sujintra near Kh&m bay: mouths of the Goaris and Binda, "we shall find", Dr. J. Wilson had previously suggested Ajanta; he says, "that they are the mouths of the strait but might it not have been the same as Sanchi that isolates Salsette and Bombay", and he agrees in Bhopal P Bardawima and Syrastra are made to
• Notes of a Visit to Gujarat (1809), pp. 13,917, and Conf. Ind. Ant. vol. III. pp. 100, 214, 329; Yule's canf. Ind. Ant. vol. I. p. 321.
Marco Polo, vol. II. p. 353.