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the towns on this part of his route, which are too well 

 known to require to be here enumerated. 



From Jaggernauth our traveller returned by nearly 

 the fame route to Ramifher, whence he pafTed over 

 into Silan> or Ceylon, and proceeded to its capital, 

 which fome, he obferves, call Khundi, (Candi,) and 

 others Noora ; but that Khundi Maha Rauje is the 

 Prince's defignation - y and that further on he arrived at 

 Catlgang, on a river called the Manic Gunga, where 

 there is a temple of Cartica, or Carticeya, the {on 

 of Mahadeo, to which he paid his refpects, and then 

 went on to vifit the Sreepud, or, " The Divine Foot/' 

 fituated upon a mountain of extraordinary height ; 

 and on one part of which there is alfo (according to 

 this Fakeer's defcription) an extenfive miry cavity, 

 called the Bhoput Tank> and which bears alfo the name 

 of the Tank of Ravan, or Raban, (the b and v being 

 pronounced indifferently in various parts of India,) 

 one of the former Kings of this Ifland, well known 

 in the Hindu legends for his wars with Rama, and 

 from whom this Tapu y or Ifland, may probably have 

 received its ancient appellation of Taprobane, (i. e. the 

 Ifle of Raban.) But, however this may be, our tra- 

 veller ftates, that, leaving this tank, he proceeded on 

 to a ftation called Seeta Koond> (where Rama placed his 

 wife Seeta, on the occaflon of his war with her 

 ravifher Ravan,) and then reached at length to the 

 Sreepud, on a mod extenfive table or flat, where there 

 is (he obferves) a bungalow built over the print of the 

 divine foot j after worfhipping which, he returned by 

 the fame route. 



V. From Ceylon this Sunyajfy paiTed over among 

 the Malays, whom he defcribes as being Mujfulmans ; 

 but there was one capital Hindu merchant, a native 

 of Ceylon, fettled there, at whofe houfe he lodged for 



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