ON MOUNT CAUCASUS. /^C^'J 



Epirus we find, that the titles o^ Coffms and CaJfjopmiSi 

 given to Jupiter, were fynonymoiis, or nearly fo. In 

 Sanfcrit the words C hafapa, Chnfyapa and C hasyapatiy 

 lignify the lord and fovereign ruler of the C*hasyas : 

 Chafyapeya or Chasopeya, in a derivative form, implies 

 the country of C'hafapa. 



The original country of the Chafas fecms to have 

 been the prcfent country of Cajh-gar, lo th^ north-eaft 

 of Cabul ; for th C'hajas, in the inltitutes of Menu, are 

 mentioned with the Daradas^ who are obvioufly the 

 Dardi2 of Ptolemy, whofe country, now called Z)^r^z</ 

 by the natives, and Dawurd by Perjian authors, is to 

 the north-weft i-f Cajhmir ; and extends towards the 

 Indus : hence Ptolemy, with great propriety, afferts, 

 that the mountains to the north eaft of Cabul are the 

 real Caucafus. 



The country oi Cajhcar is fituated in a beautiful val- 

 ley, watered by a large river, which, after paflin;^ clofe 

 to Chdgd Seray, Cooner and Noorgul*, joins the Land!- 

 Sindh, or little Sindh, below jaldldbddyin the fmall dif- 

 trift of Cameh (for there is no town of that name), and 

 from this circumftance the little Sindh is often called 

 the river Cameh. 



The capital city of Cafncar is called Chairaid, or Cha^ 

 traury and is the place ot refidence of a petty Mahome- 

 dan prince, whQ is in great meafure tributary to the 

 emperor i^^ China; for the Chinefe are now in poffeffion 

 of Badacjhdn as far as Bagldn to the north-weft o{ Ande- 

 rdb, I he Badacjhandt^ or diftridls compofing the pro- 

 vince o{ Badacjhdn U)r Badacjhandt is the plural form) 

 are feparateo from Cafocar to the fouth-eaft by a high 

 range of mountains, always covered with fnow ; and the 

 road from the new capital o[' Badacjhdn, called Faidzdbdd, 

 and Faiziyic dbddy near the fite of the old one, is through 



* Cooner and Noorgul At.t called Gtc^noor^ul In the Ayeen Akbery. 



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