27i2 ON THE CHRONOLOGY 



In the MuJrd-rdcfta/d, it is declared, that the city 

 in which Chandra-Gupta relided, was to the north of 

 the hills, and, from iome particular circumftances 

 that wiil be noticed hereafter, it appears that they 

 could not be above rive or fix miles dittant from it. 

 Megajlhenes informs us alio, that this famous city was 

 iituated near the confluence of the Erannoboas with 

 the Ganges. The Erannoboas has been fuppoied to be 

 the Sone, which has the epithet of Hiran-ya+baha, or 

 gold-voajlvng, given to it in fome poems. The Sone, 

 however, is mentioned as a diitinct river from the 

 Erannoboas, both by Pliny and Arrmn, on the autho- 

 rity of Megajlhenes : and the word Hirdn-ya-baha, 

 from which the Greeks made Erannoboas, is not a 

 proper name, but an appellative (as the Greek Chry/b- 

 rhoas), applicable, and is applied, to any river that rolls 

 >wn panicles of gold with its lands. Moil, rivers in 

 dia as well as in Europe, and more particularly the 

 Ganges, with ail the rivers that come down from the 

 northern hills, are famous in ancient hiilory for their 

 golden fands. The CoJJbanus of Arrian, or Cojfoagus 

 of ; ' is not the river Coo/y, but the Cojfanor Catian^ 



called alio Cojfhy, Co/Jar, and Oajfay, which runs 

 through the province of MiJnapoor, and joins the re- 

 mams of the wellern branch of the Ganges below 



The Erannoboas, now the Coofy, has greatly al- 

 tered its courfe for feveral centuries pail. It now joins 

 the Ganges, about live and twenty miles above the 

 place where it united with that river in the days of 

 Megafthenes ; but the old bed, with a fmall ftream, 

 is i r i 1 1 vifible, and is called to this day Puranah-bahah 

 'be old Coo/y r or the old channel. It is well delineated 

 in Major Rrnnelf/s Atlas, and it joins an arm of 

 the Ganges, formerly the bed of that river, near a 

 place called Nabob-gunge, From Nabob-gunge the 

 Ganges formerly took an extem'ive fweep to the eaft- 

 ward, towards Hyatpoor. and the old banks of the river 

 a:e itill viiible in that direction. From thefe fa&s, (up- 



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