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the direction of the first range of snowy mountains. 

 The Pandits, whom Abul-Fazil consulted, placed 

 Cancador ] 26'.5 Yojatias from Lanca, or the peak of 

 Adam, which is in yO° of longitude, according to 

 them. K<7?;2«-/;^/ri is accordingly \9.05\ Yqjanas ^xoxn. 

 Lcmca; some reckon 1242, which will place Ya??ia-purl 

 in long. 178". 22'. 



The commentator on the Siaya-Sidd'hmita, has re- 

 duced that distance very much ; for he says that 

 Lanca, or the three islands, occupy a space of 30 

 degrees along the ecjuator; and this will bring their 

 assumed longitude of the easternmost shores of Md- 

 Lancu nearer to its real one. 



As Ptolejiy places Md-Lancd-puri in the same 

 longitude with the Paurmiics, he must have used 

 the same data, and which he had probably received 

 iVom the Hindus whom he conversed with at Alexan- 

 dria. Md-Lancd being, according to the Paurdnics, 

 in thecenter of the Peninsula, it must be of course in 

 about fi\T degrees of Latitude North: and there it is 

 placed by Abul-Fazil: and in 4° 20' by Ptolemy. 

 Md Lancd is called in the Purdnds Yamala and Ma- 

 laya ; which last denomination it still retains. It is 

 styled also Cancltana-pdda, or with the golden skirts. 

 It may be translated the country of the golden feet, a 

 title assumed by the Emperors of Ava, and other 

 Kings of that part of the world: and the Malayan 

 breeze is as famous in the east, as the SahcEan in the 

 west, and tts capital was also called Haba or Zaba. 



In the beginning of the Prahmdnda-purdriLa, it is de- 

 clared, that the strong hold of Yama in Tri-cuta, that 

 is to say the Peninsula oi' Malaca, is 100 Yqjanas long, 

 and 30 broad, which is sufficiently accurate. 



