'£73 ON THE CHRONOLOGY 



Oreoplionta. Hdrarpunt or Harydrptmt in the vulgar 

 dial( 61s ; in Sanfcrit it is Hdrdrparna from Ham 

 and Arpanet^ which implies a piece of ground 

 co nice rated to liar a or Mahdrdeva. The word 

 ra is always pronounced in the fpoken dia- 

 lects. Arpunt ; thus they lay, Crijhnarpunt \ It 

 is now Ranghmatty i Here was formerly a place 

 of worihip, dedicated to Mahd-deva or Hara, with 

 an exteniive tract of ground appropriated to the 

 worihip of the God; but the Ganges having 

 deitroyed the place of worihip, and the holy 

 ground having been relumed during the invaiions 

 of the Mufulmans, it is entirely neglected. It 

 hill exills, "however, as a place of worihip, onlv 

 the image of the Phallus is removed to a greater 

 diftance from the river. 



Aga-nagara, literally the Nagara, or town of Aga. 

 It is It ill a famous place of worfliip in the dwipa 

 (iiland or peninfula) of Aga, called, from that 

 circumftance, Aga-dwip : the true name is Agar- 

 dwip. A few miles above Aga-nagara, was the 

 city called Catadupe by Arrian from Caliva- 

 dwip, a place famous in the purdnas. It is now 

 called Catvva. 



Ganges-regia, now Satgatiw, near Hooglv. It is a fam- 

 ous place of worihip. and was formerly the reii- 

 dence of the kings of the countrv, and faid to 

 have been a city of an immenie iize, fo as to have 

 iwallowed up one hundred villages, as the name 

 imports : however, though they write its name 

 Satgauw, I believe it ihould be Satgauw, or the 

 Jeven villages, becaufe there were fo many cenfu- 

 rated to the Seven Rzjhis, and each of them had 

 one appropriated to his own tife. 



Palura, now Palordh, or Polhrah, four or five miles 

 to the weft of Oolbarya below Budge-budgt. A 

 branch of the Ganges ran formerly to the weft of 

 it, and after palling by Naga^-bafaft, or Nagam- 

 bapan, fell into the fea towards Ingellee. From 

 Nagam-bafan the weftcrn branch of the Ganges 



was 



