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PTOLEMY'S GEOG. BK. VII, CH. & 23-25.
881
of India.
180
23. Rhadamarkotta,
guide him, it would he unjust to reproach him with in which is much nard... 172 28
this want of connexion in his materials, and the conAthenagouron ............ 146° 20° 27°
fusion therefrom resulting; but this absence, almost Manisins (or Maniataia) 147° 15' 24° 40' absolute, of connexion does only render the task Tôsalei, a metropolis ... 150°
230-20
of the critic all the more laborious and unwelcome
and there results from it strange mistakes for Alosanga .................. 152° 24° 15' Adeisaga .................... 159° 30' 23°
those who without sufficiently taking into account
the composition of this part of the Tables, have Kimara..................... 170° 23° 15'
believed they could find in the relative positions Parisara .................. 179° 21° 30'
which the places have there taken a sufficient means Tougma, a metropolis... 152° 30' 22° 15' of identification. It would only throw one into the Arisabion .................. 158° 30' 22° 30' risk of error to seek for correspondences to these Posinara .................. 162° 15' 22° 50' obscure names, (of which there is nothing to Pandasa ................... 165° 21° 20' guarantee the correctness, and where there is not Sipibêris (or Sittêbêris). 170° 23° 15' a single name that is assigned to a definite terri. Triglypton, called also Trilingon, capital
tory) in the resemblances, more or less close, which of the kingdom
could be furnished by a topographical dictionary ...... 154° 1 8°
of India." In this part the cocks are said to be
Selam pours This suggests Sélempur, & bearded, and the crows and parrots white.
place situated at some distance north of the Deva 24. Lariagara ...... 162° 30' 18° 15' or lower Sarayd. The identity of the names is Rhingiberi .............. 166° 18°
our only warrant for taking them as applying to Agimoithe ............... 170° 40' 18° 40'
one and the same town; but as the two places .................. 172°
which follow belong to the same part of the Dasana or Doana ...... 1650
150 20
country, the identification is in some measure
supported. Sélempar is situated on a tributary Mareoura & metropolis,
of the Sarayd, the little Gandak. called also Malthoura 158° 12° 30°
Kanogisk: This is beyond doubt the famous Lasippa (or Lasyppa)... 161° 12° 30'
city of Kanyakubja or Kanauj, which has already Barenkora (or Bareus
been noticed under the list of towns attributed to thra ...................... 164°30' 12° 50'
Prasiako, where the name is given as Kanagora. 25. In the Golden Khersonese
Ptolemy, while giving here the name more correctBalongka .................. 162° 4° 40' ly has put the city hopelessly out of its position Kokkonagars ............ 160° 2°
with reference to the Ganges, from which he has Tharrha .................. 1620 1° 20's.
removed it several degrees, though it stood upon Palands .................. 161° 1° 20's.
its banks. Among Indian cities it ranks next in
point of antiquity to Ayodhyl in Andh, and it was Regarding the foregoing long list of inland towns, for many centuries the Capital of North-Western the following general observations by Saint-Martin India. It was then a stately city, full of increare instructive: "With Ptolemy, unfortunately," dible wealth, and its king, who was sometimes he says (Etude, pp. 348-9) "the correspondence styled the Emperor of India, kept a very splendid of names of towns in many instances, is less easy court. Its remains are 65 miles W.N.W. from to discover than in the case of the names of | Lakhnau. The place was visited by Hinen Teiang peoples or tribes. This is shown once again in 1 in 634 4.D. Pliny (H. N. lib. VI, c. 21) has Calini. the long-enough list which he adds to the names pays. Conf. Lassen, Ind. Alt. vol. I, p. 158; of places already mentioned under the names of Mahabh. III, 8313; Ramdyana, I, 34, 37. the people to which they respectively belonged. Kassida :-Here we have another case of To judge from the repetitions in it and the want of recurrence of the same name in an altered form. connexion, this list appears to have been supplied In Sanskrit and in inscriptions Kasi is the ordito him by a document different from the docu- Dary name of Banaras. How Ptolemy came to ments he had previously used, and it is precisely lengthen the name by affixing da to it has not been because he has not known how to combine its explained. Ptolemy has mutilated Varanasi into contents with the previous details that he has thus Erarasa, which he calls a metropolis, and assigns given it separately and as an appendix, although to the Kaspeiraioi. Such is the view taken by thereby obliged to go again over the same ground Saint-Martin, but Yule, as we have seen, identifies he had alrendy traversed. For country where Erarasa with Govardhan (Giriraja). He also Ptolemy had not the knowledge of it as a whole to points out, on the authority of Dr. F. Hall,
