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agree. At all events, considering the double bence Korygaza may be Gorakhpur, the situation acordance of the name and the position, it seems to of which is notably marshy. me there is little room to doubt that we have there 15. Between the Imaos and Bapyrrhos the locality of Kelydna. The existing town of ranges the Takoraioi are farthest north, and MAIDA, built quite near the site of Guus, stands at
below them are the Korangkaloi, then the the very confluence of the Klinci and MahAnanda.
Passalai, after whom to the north of MaianThis place appears to have preserved the name of
dros are the Tiladai, such being the name the ancient Malada of the Puranik lists, very probably the Molindai of Megasthenes. This
applied to the Bêbeidai, for they are short of point being settled, we are able to refer thereto the
stature and broad and shaggy and broad. towns in the list, both those which precede and
faced, but of fair complexion. those which follow after. We shall commence with Takorsioi:-This tribe occupied the valleys the last, the determination of which rests on data
at the foot of the mountains above Eastern Kösala that are less vague. These are Aganagara and and adjoined the Tanganoi. The Tanganas are Talarga. The table, as we have seen, places them mentioned among the tribes of the north in the on a line which descends towards the sea exactly lists of the Brihat Sahitd (IX, 17; X, 12; XIV, to the south of Kelydna. If, as seems quite likely, 29). They have left numerous descendants in these indications have been furnished to Ptolemy different parts of Gangetic India. A particolar by the designating of a route of commerce
clan in Rohilkhand not far from the seats of the towards the interior, it is natural to think that this
Takornioi preserves still the name under the formi route parted from the great emporium of the Dakbaura (Elliot's Supplementary Glossary of Indian Ganges (the Gangê Regia of Ptolemy, the terms, p. 860), and other branches are met with Ganges emporium of the Periplás) which should be near the Jamna and in Rajputana. Towards the found, as we have already said, near where Hågbli enst again the Dekra form a considerable part of now stands. From Kelydna to this point the route the population of Western Asâm (J. 4. 8. Beng., descends in fact exactly to the south, following vol. XVIII, p. 712). the branch of the Ganges which forms the western Korang kaloi;-These are probably of the side of the delta. The position of Aghadip same stock, if not actually the samo people, as Agadvipa) on the eastern bank of the river Koraäkare of the Purdnas (Asiat. Research., little below Katwá, can represent quite suitably vol. VIII), and the Kyankdanis of Shekavati. Aganagora (Aganagara); while Talarga may be Their position is near the sources of the taken to be a place some leagues distant from Cal. Gandak. cutta, in the neighbourhood of Haghli. .... The Passalai:-The Passalai here mentioned are towns which precede Kolydna are far from having not to be confounded with the Passalai of the Dogb. the same degree of probability. We have nothing In the name is easily to be recognised the Vaibali more here to serve for our guidance than the of Hiuen Tsiang, which was a small kingdom distances taken from the geographical nota- stretching northward from the Ganges along the tions, and we know how uncertain this indication banks of the river Gandak. The capital bad the is when it has no check to control it. The first same name as the kingdom, and was situated in the position above Kelydna is Kondota or Ton. immediate neighbourhood of Hajipur, a station dota; the distance represented by an arc of two near the junction of the Gandak and Ganges, where degrees of a great circle would conduct us to the a great fair is annually held, distant from Pátna lower Bagamatt (Bhagavati). Kotygasa or about 20 miles. "Here we find the village of Sorygasa (distant degree) would come to be Besárh, with an old ruined fort, which is still placed perhaps on the Gandaki, perhaps between called Raja Bisal-ka-garh, or the fort of Raja the Gandaki and the lower Saraya; last of all Visala, who was the reputed founder of the Boraita, at two degrees from Korygaza, would anciont Vaibali." (Cunningham, Ane. Geog. of oonduct us to the very heart of ancient Kosala, Ind., p. 443). towards the position of the existing town' of Bar. Tiladai:-We here leave the regions adjoinda. We need soarcely add, in spite of the con- ing the Ganges, and enter the valleys of the Brahnexion of the last two names, that we attach but a maputra. The Tiladai are called also Besadai or faint value to determinations which rest on data Basadai. Ptolemy places them above the Maiandros, 80 vague." Boraita may be, however, Bhardchand from this as well as his other indications, we in Audb, as Yolo has suggested, and with regard must take them to be the hill-people in the vicinity to Korygas, it may be observed that the last part of Silhet, where, as Yule remarks, the plains break of the name may represent the Sanskrit kachha, into an infinity of hillooks, which are specially which means a marsh or place near a marsh, and known as tlla. It is possible, he thinks, that the
