472 ON mou>;t Caucasus. 



ever very common all over India : thus they fay yun- 

 gul iery, or couniry about woods and forefts. Shivauter, 

 Brahniaictcr. ViJJmautery &c. imply apiece of ground, or 

 a diltritl belonging to Shiva, &c. or fet apart for his 

 worfhip. In Sanfcrit, the compound Vdhlica-tiram or 

 Vdhlic-tir, would lignifiy the country on the banks of 

 the river V^'blica. Bumyiany as well as r<73?//and Bc<Ukhy 

 \vere at an early period in the hands o{' the Miifulmans- 

 There were even kings of Bdmiyan : but this dynafty 

 lalled but a few years and ended in 1215 The kings 

 and governors rehded at Ghulghuleh, called at that time, 

 the fort or palace of Bdmiyan. It was deftroyed by 

 Genghiz-Kh AN, in the vear 1221 ; and becaufe the 

 inhabitants had prefumed to refill him, he ordered them 

 to be butchered, without diftinBion, either of age or 

 fex : in his rage, he fpared neither animals, nor even 

 trees. He ordered it to be called in his own language 

 Mail hnlrg. or the city of grief and forrow : but the in- 

 hiibitants of that country, called it in their own dialeft 

 Ghi'JghuIch, which word, ufed alio in Perfian^ fignifies 

 the cries of ivoe. To have rebuilt it, would have been 

 ominous : for this reafon, thev eretled a fort on a hill 

 to the north of Bdnityan, which is called to this day, the 

 imperial fort. This fort alfo was deftroyed by Zingis 

 the UJhick, in the year 1628; and has not bceri rebuilt 

 lince. 



According to the Purdnas., SwAYA^rBHUVA, or Adi- 

 MA, Satvavrata or Noah, lived in the north-weft 

 parts of India about Caftomir. There Br ahma' alfumed 

 a mortal Ihape according to the Matfya-Purdna ; and 

 one half of his body fpringing out, witiiout his expe- 

 riencing any diminution whatfoever, he framed out of 

 it Satarupa'. She was fo beautiful, that he fell in love 

 with her. As he confidered her as his daughter, being 

 fprung from his body, he was afliamed. During this con- 

 l!ict between fliame and love, he remained motionlefs, 

 with his eyes fixed on her. Satarupa perceiving his 



fuuation, 



