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CAN * three years ago. He faid, that- the Mjaii or tem- 

 ple, is. at a fmall diltance from the north-welt corner of 

 the wall of PecJj'm^ and is called Mabd-Cdla-Myau, from 

 its chief deity Maha'-Ca'la, who is worlhipped there, 

 and w'hofe ftatue is on one fide of the river, and the 

 Myau on the other. That in one part of the Myaii, is a 

 gilt ftatue of Mach'-ho'dara-Na'tk, about eighteen 

 feet high : in another part is the Cbdra?i-pad, or the ira- 

 prefTion of the feet of Datta'tre'y a or Datta, called 

 ToTH by the Egyptians. There is a convent and 2i La- 

 ma. What are the Chinefe names of thefe deities, he 

 could not tell. This aitonilhing traveller firft vifited 

 the moft famous places ofworfiiip in the northern parts 

 of India^ as far as Bdhlk, and the borders of Ferfia. 

 Though a Brdhnien, he had a regard for the worfliip of 

 Jin A, and renouncing his tribe, he refolved to vifit the 

 living FoHs. I fhall here exhibit the outlines of his 

 peregrinations, which are as accurate as can reafona- 

 bly be expefted from a man who declares, that he did 

 not travel for the purpofe of geographical information, 

 and who never imagined he ftiould be requefted to give 

 an account of his travels. 



According to Arce'swaras account. 



From Benares to "Nepal 



Laffa - - - , 



Cherit fouth-eaft o{ Lajfa - 



Country of Letanh 



Then turning toward the weft, he en- 

 tered the country of Combo, where 

 he adorned the Lama'-Combo - 



to Sdnid-Jerbu - - - 



According to the 

 m.ipsof the Jtfuitu 



Nepal 



Lajfa 



DJtri 



Laton 



See Alphab. 



Tibet. ^.4.2'^. 

 Bridge of 5^- 



ma. 



Jonathan Duncan, Efq. now governor oi Bemhaj: 



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