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They went to Cape Colinga, now Palmira ; thence 

 to Dandagula, now Tentu-gully, almoffc oppolite to 



Fultati * ; thence to Tropina. or Triveni and Tre- 

 beni, called Tripina by the Portuguefe, in the \a& 

 century ; and, laitly, to Patale, called Patali, Patiali 

 as late as the twelfth century, and now Patna. PUny, 

 who mirlook this Patale for another town of the fame 

 name, fituate at the ilirnmit of the Delta of the Indus. 

 where a form of Devj, under the appellation of Patali 

 is equally worshipped to this day, candidly acknow- 

 ledges, that he could by no means reconcile the vari- 

 ous accounts he had feen about Patale, and the other 

 places mentioned before. 



The account tranfmitted to us of Chandra-Gupta, 

 by the historians of Alexander, agrees remarkably 

 well with the abftract 1 have given in this paper of the 

 Mudra RacJJiafa. Bv Athen<eus, he is called Sandra- 

 coptos, by the others Sandra cottos, and ibme times Art- 

 d^ocoltos. He was alio called Chandra limply: and, 

 accordingly, Dlodorus Siculus calls him Xandrames 

 from Chandra, or Chandram in the accufative cafe ; 

 for in the wedern parts of India, the fpoken dialects 

 from the Sanfcrit do always affect that cafe. Ac- 

 cording to Plutarch, in his life of Alexander, Chan- 

 dra-Gupta had been in that prince's camp, and had 

 been heard to fay afterwards, that Alexander would 

 have found no difficulty in the conqueft of Prachi, 

 or the country of the Pralians had he attempted it, 

 as the king was defpiled, and hated too, on account 

 of his cruelty. 



In the Mudra Racjhafa it is faid, that king Nanda, 



- a feverc lit ofyillnefs, fell into a # ilate ofim- 



beciliity, which betrayed itfelf in m's diicourfe 



* This is the only place in this eiThv not to be found in Rennetfs 

 Atlas. 



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