Indian Antiquary Vol 06

SR No.: 032498
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 458
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 21 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[DECEMBER, 1877.
and Suari, in whose country is Mount Maleus, Sindus, rising on that spur of Mount Caucasuson which shadows fall towards the north in winter, which is called Paropa misus, from sources and towards the south in summer, for six months fronting the sunrise, ll receives also itself nineteen alternately. Baeton asserts that the north rivers, of which the most famous are the Hydaspole in these parts is seen but once in the year, pes, which has four tributaries; the Cantaand only for fifteen days; while Megasthenős says bra, f which has three; the Acesines and the that the same thing happens in many parts of Hypa sis, which are both navigable ; but neverIndia. The south pole is called by the Indianstheless, having no very great supply of water, -it Dramasa. The river Jomanes flows throngh is nowhere broader than fifty stadia, or deeper the Palibothri into the Ganges between the than fifteen paces.** It forms an extremely towns Methora and Cariso bora.t In the large island, which is called Prasiane, and a parts which lie southward from the Ganges the in- smaller one, called Patale. Its stream, which habitants, already swarthy, are deeply coloured is navigable, by the lowest estimates, for 1240 by the sun, though not scorched black like the miles, turns westward as if following more or less Ethiopians. The nearer they approach the Indus closely the course of the sun, and then falls into the more plainly does their complexion betray the ocean. The measure of the coast line from the influence of the sun.
the mouth of the Ganges to this river I shall set The Indus skirts the frontiers of the Prasii, down as it is generally given, though none of whose mountain tracts are said to be inhabited by the computations agree with each other. From 'the Pygmies. Artemidorusg sets down the the mouth of the Ganges to Cape Calingon distance between the two rivers at 121 miles. and the town of Dandagulat 625 miles ;
(23.) The Indus, called by the inhabitants to Tropina 1225 ;|| to the cape of Peri
some call the nation itself the Palibộtri. Their king keeps in his pay at all times 60,000 foot, 30,000 horse, and 8000 elephants.
Beyond Palibôtra is Mount Maleus, T on which Bhadows in winter fall towards the north, in summer towards the south, for six months alternately. In that region the Bears are seen but once a year, and not for more than fifteen days, as Beton in
forms us, who allows that this happens in many parts of India. Those living near the river Indus in the regions that turn southward are scorched more than others by the heat, and at last the com plexion of the people is visibly affected by the great power of the sun. The mountains are in habited by the Pygmies.
But those who live near the sea have no kings
9 The Monedes or Mandei are placed by Yule about + See Ind. Ant. vol. V. p. 330. Yule identifies the Gangpur, on the upper waters of the Brahmani, S.W. of first of these with the area enclosed by the Nara from Chhutia Nbgpur. Lassen places them S. of the Malinadi above Rolari to Haidarâbâd, and the delta of the Indusabout Sonpur, where Yule has the Suari or Sabarce, the
ED. Savars of Sanskrit authors, which Lassen places between 1 v. 1. Dandaguda. Cape Kalingon is identified by Yule Soapur and Singhbhum. See note 4, p. 197.-ED.
as Point Godavari.-ED. + This, of course, can only occur at the equator, from
"Both the distance and the name point to the kreat which the southern extremity of India is about 500 miles
port town of Coringa, as the promontory of Coringon, distant.
which is situated on a projecting point of land at the † Palibothri must denote here the subjects of the realna of which Palitothra was the capital, and not merely the
mouth of the Godavari river. The town of Dandagudo
or Dandagula I take to be the Dantapura of the Buddhist inhabitants of that city, as Rennel and others supposed,
chronicles, which as the capital of Kalings may with much and so fixed its site at the confluence of the Ganges and
probability be identified with Raja Mahendri, which is Jamuna. Methora is easily identified with Mathura. Carisobora-vv. II. Chrysoban, Cyriaoborca. This is the
only 30 miles to the north-east of Coringa. From the Kleinobora of Arrian (ante, vol. V. p. 89), which Yule
great similarity of the Greek r and II, I think it not places at Batesar, and Lassen at Agra, which he makes the
improbable that the Greek pame may have been Danda. Sanskrit Krishnapurt. Wilkins (As. Res. vol. V. p. 270)
pula, which is almost the same as Dantapura. But in this says Clisobora is now called "Mugu-Nagar by the Musul
case the Danta or 'tooth-relie' of Baddha must have mans, and Kalisa pura by the Hindus." Vide ante,
been enshrined in Kalinga as early as the time of Pliny. p. 249, note I.-ED.
which is confirmed by the statement of the Buddhist I Vide ante, p. 133, note +-ED.
chronicles that the left canine tooth' of Buddha waa A Greek geographer of Ephesus, whose date is about
brought to Kalinga immediately after his death, where it 100 B.C. His valuable work on geography, called a Peri.
was enshrined by the reigning sovereign, Brahmadatta."ples, was much quoted by the ancient writers, but with
Cunningham, Geog. p. 518. the exception of some fragments is now lost.
! (Tropina answers to Tripontarior Tirupanatars, The real sources of the Indus were unknown to the opposite Kochin.--Ed. The distance given is measured Greeks. The principal stream rises to the north of the from the mouth of the Ganges, and not from Cape Calingon. Kailasa mountain (which figures in Hindu mythology as the · T Possibly, as suggested by Yule, Mount Pårávantha, mansion of the gods and Siva's paradise) in lat. 820, long. near the Damudd, and not far from the Tropic; vide $1° 30', at an elevation of about 20,000 feet. .
ante, p. 127, note S, and conf. vol. I. p. 46ff. The Malli ST The Chandrabhaga or Akesinês, now the Chenb. (see above), in whose country it was, are not to be con
- For remarks on the tributaries of the Indus see Notes founded with another tribe of the same name in the Panjib, on Arrian, chap. iv.-Ind. Ant. vol. V. pp. 331-833. mentioned by Arriau; see vol. V. pp. 87, 96, 333.-ED.