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cording to the legends, after disappearing under country between the lower part of the Gumti ground, joined the Ganges at Allahabad. and the Ganges, adding that "the Journal of
Kondochates.-Now the Gandak,-in Hiouen Thsang places their capital, M&ti. Sanskrit, Gandaki or Gandakavati (plokepóets),- pura, at a little distance to the east of the because of its abounding in a kind of alligator upper Ganges near Gangad v & ra, now having a horn-like projection on its nose. Hardwar."
Sambos.-Probably the Sarabos of Pto- Tributaries of the Indus :-Hydraotes.lemy. It may be the Sambal, a tributary of Other forms are Rhouadis and Hyarotis. It is now the Jamna.
called the Ravi, the name being a contraction Magon.--According to Mannert the Râm- of the Sanskrit Irâ vati, which means aboundganga.
ing in water,' or the daughter of Iravat,' the eleAgoranis.-According to Rennel the Gha- phant of Indra, who is said to have generated grå-a word derived from the Sanskrit Gohar- the river by striking his tusk against the rock ghara 'of gurgling sound').
whence it issues. His name has reference to O malis has not been identified, but Schwan- his 'ocean' origin. beck remarks that the word closely agrees The name of the Kambistholæ does not with the Sanskrit Vimala stainless'), a com- occar elsewhere. Schwanbeck conjectures that mon epithet of rivers.
it may represent the Sansk fit Kapisthola, Kommenases.-Rennel and Lassen iden- 'ape-land,' the letter m being inserted, as in tify this with the Karmana så (bonorum Palimbothra.' Arrian errs in making the Hyoperum destructrix), a small river which joins phasis a tributary of the Hydraotes, for it falls the Ganges above Baxar. According to a Hindu into the Akesines below its junction with legend, whoever touches the water of this river that river. loses all the merit of his good works, this being | Hyphasis (other forms are Bibasis, Hypasis, transferred to the nymph of the stream.
and Hyparis.)-In Sanskrit the Vipasa, and Kakou this.-Mannert takes this to be the now the B yasa or Bias. It lost its name on Gumti.
being joined by the Satadru, the hundredAndomatis.-Thought by Lassen to be channelled,' the Zaradros of Ptolemy, now the connected with the Sanskrit Andhamati tenebri- Satlej. The Astrobæ are not mentioned cosus) which he would identify, therefore, with by any writer except Arrian. the Tå masa, the two names being identical in Saranges.-According to Schwanbeck, meaning.
this word represents the Sanskrit Saranga, Madyan dini may represent, Lassen "six-limbed. It is not known what river it thinks, the Sanskrit Madh ya ndina (meri. designated. The Kekians, through whose coun. dionalis).
try it flowed, were called in Sanskrit, according Amystis has not been identified, nor to Lassen, Sekaya, Kata dupa, the city which it passes. The Neudros is not known. The Attakeni latter part of this word, dupa, may stand, are likewise unknown, unless their name is Schwanbeck suggests, for the Sanskrit dvipa, another form of Assakeni. * an island.'
Hydas pes-Bidaspes is the form in PtoOxymagis.-The Pazalæ or Passalæ, lemy. In Sanskrit Vitasta, now the Behut or called in Sanskrit Pankala, inhabited the Doab, Jhelam; called also by the inhabitants on its --through which, or the region adjacent to it, banks the Bedusta, 'widely spread.' It is flowed the Ikshumati (abounding in sugar- the "fabulosus Hydaspes" of Horace, and the cane"). Oxymagis very probably represented
"Medus Hydaspes" of Virgil. It formed the this name.
western boundary of the dominions of Porus. Errenysis closely corresponds to Vari. Oxydrakai.—This namerepresents, accordnasi, the name of Bånâras in Sansk sit, ---Soing to Lassen, the Sanskrit Kshudraka. It called from the rivers Varana and Asi, which is variously written, -Sydrakæ, Syrakusa (projoin the Ganges in its neighbourhood. The bably a corrupt reading for Sudrakæ), Sabagræ, Mathæ may be the people of Magadha. V. and Sygambri. According to some accounts, de Saint-Martin would fix their position in the this was the people among whom Alexander was
