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where the former appears as the Gömati and the Divarication of the same latter as the Krumu.
River Khariphon into the Branch of the Kôa towards the Paropani. Sabalaessa mouth............1139 210 20 sadai:-This is probably the upper Köphên, Divarication from the River which joins the Kòa (Kunâr river) from Kabul
Khariphon into the LôniDivarication of the Indus towards the Arbita
bare mouth ..................113° 20' 12° 40' mountains :-Between the Lower Indus and the river called anciently the Arabis or Arbis, was
29. Of the streams which join the Ganges located a tribe of Indian origin called variously
the order is this :the Arabii, the Arbies, the Arabitae, the Ambritae Sources of the River Diaand the Arbiti. There can be no doubt therefore
ha.............................134° 30 360 that by the Arbita Mountains Ptolemy designates Sources of the Ganges itself...136° the range of hills in the territory of that tribe, Sources of the River Sarabos 1400 now called the Hala Mountains. Towards the
Junction of the Diamouna northern extremity of this range the Indus
and Ganges .........1360 340 receives a tributary called the Gandava, and this we may take to be what Ptolemy calls the di.
Junction of the Sarabos and varication of the Indus towards the range. It
Gangês ...........................1360 30 32930 may perhaps, however, be the Western Nara that Ptolemy's description of the Ganges is very is indicated.
meagre as compared with his description of the Divarication of the Indus into the Paro.
Indus. He mentions by name only 3 of its panis a dai:-To judge from the figures in the
affluente, although Arrian (quoting from Megas. table this would appear to be a tributary of the
thenès) enumerates no fewer than 17, and Pliny Indus joining it from the west a little above its
19. The latitude of its source, Gangotri, which junction with the Koa or Kabul river. There is. is in the territory of Garhwal, is 30° 54', or more however, no stream, even of the least note, answer
than 6 degrees further south than its position as ing to the description.
given in the table. The name of the river, the 28. Divarication (đktporn) from the Indus
Gang , is supposed to be from a root gam, 'to
go,' reduplicated, and therefore to mean the running towards Mt. Ouindion 123° 299 300
Go-go. The tributaries mentioned by Arrian The source of (tributary join
are these: the Kainas, Erannobona, Korsoanos, ing) the Divarication ......1270 270
Sônos, Sittokatis, Solomatis, Kondokhates Samboe, Divarication of the Indus
Magon, Agoranis, Omalis, Kommenases, Katowards Ara khôsia .........121° 30 27° 30' kouthis, Andomatis, Amystis, Oxymagis and the Divarication of the Kôa to
Errhenysis. The two added by Pliny are the Pri. wards the Paropanisadai ... 121° 30' 33°
nas and Jomanes. Regarding these names the The source of (tributary join.
following remarks may be quoted from Yule :
"Among rivers, some of the most difficult names ing) the Divarication ......1150 24° 30
are in the list which Pliny and Arrian have taken Divarication of the Indus to
from Megasthenes, of affluents of the Gangôs. wards the Arbita Moun.
This list was got apparently at Palibothra (Patna), tains ............................117° 25° 10' and if streams in the vicinity of that city occupy an Divarication of the Indas
undue space in the list, this is natural. Thus towards the Paropanisadai. 124° 30 31° 20 Magona and Errhenysis,-Mohana and Nirajana, Divarication of the Indus into
join to form the river flowing past Gaya, famous
in Buddhist legend under the second name. The the Sagapa mouth .........1139 40 23° 15'
navigable Prinas or Pinnas is perhaps Punya, From the Sagapa into the
now Panpan, one of the same cluster. Sonus Indus...........................111° 21° 30 instead of being a duplicate of Erannoboas, may Divarication of the Indus into
be a branch of the Gayê river, still called Sonå. the Khrysoun (or Golden)
Andomatis flowing from the Madiandini, i.e., mouth ........................112° 30 220 "Meridionales" is perhaps the Andhela, one of Divarication of the Indus into
the names of the Chandan river of Bhagalpar.
Kainas, navigable, is not likely to be the Ken of the Khariphon month ......113° 30 22° 20'
Bundelkhand, the old form of which is Karpavati, From the Khariphon to the
but more probably the Kayana or Kohape of Sapara .....
.....112° 30 21° 45' | Gorakhpur. It is now a tributary of the lower
