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they call also Canacor, which is some place inthe Gan^ 

 ^•e//c provinces : but I have shown before, that Cana- 

 cor or Cancar, was the capital city of the country of 

 Gancar-deha, or of the Gangaridce in Bengal. 



Jum-cote ov Lanca-puri, which D'Herbelot writes 

 Giamcout, they place, with the Hindus, in the cen- 

 ter of the Peninsula, in five degrees of Lat. North, 

 and in Long. I76 or 175, according to Abul-Fazil 

 and others; and Ptolemy places Balunca, or A fd- 

 Lancd-puri in Lat. 4° 40' North, and in Long.' 162. 

 The Longitude of Lanca or Mu-Lancd may be ascer- 

 tained from the Piirdn'as ; a circumstance very un- 

 usual. Yama-puri is declared in these sacred books, 

 to be the general rendezvous of the departed from 

 all parts of the world, and from which tiiey proceed 

 in a body with a proper guard, composed of the ser- 

 vants of Yama, to Uharma-puri, which I shall show 

 hereafter to be the purgatory of St. Patrick in 

 Hiran'ya or Suvarn'eya, the gold island in the west. 

 The days and distances are accurately described, 

 which summed up amount to 81,554 Yojanas.^ The 

 breadth of the world is 100,000 Yojcmas, equal to 

 180' of longitude: and these 81,554 Fo/Vm^^ answer 

 of course to 146" 48', which subtracted from 180 

 degrees, leave ^S; the half of which 16 30' is the 

 longitude of Dharma puri, and added to 146' 50' 

 will place Md-Lancd or Jum-cote in long. 162' 20'. 

 For these two places are at the furthermost extremities 

 of the earth, which forms a perfect circle, sur- 

 rounded by a sea, every where of the. same breadth. 

 This singular route of the departed will be thesubject 

 of a separate paragraph. It passes through /i'?6/'i^, in 



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