ON MOUNT CAUCASUS. 529 



" he performed a most meritorious action ; which 

 " proved afterwards of great service to him. Some 

 " private business having brought him to Mat'hurd ; 

 " his friends prevailed on him to perform the usual 

 " ablutions : he gave alms also. His heart was puri- 

 "fiedfrom guilt, and his iniquity removed. At that 

 " time the chief of tht Munis of Jina (Shama) came 

 " to Mafliiird, and shewed to him the path to rec- 

 *' titude. He treasured up every word : acknow- 

 " ledging the truth, he was irradiated. From that 

 " moment he held for nothing his crown, his wife, 

 " his children, and his wealth. He disposed of his 

 " effects among the Yatis, and having resigned his 

 " crown to his son, and recommended his wife to 

 " him, he withdrew to the forests. There, he made 

 " Tapasya, thinking on Jinavara. Thus I have 

 " related the whole to you." 



By Calinga, the Pauranics understand the sea 

 coasts at the summit of the bay oi Bengal, from point 

 Godaveri to cape Negrais. It is divided into three 

 parts. Calinga proper, which extends from point 

 Godaveri to the western branch of the Ganges ,• the 

 inhabitants of the country are called Colingee by 

 iELTAN and Pliny. Madhya-Calinga or middle 

 Calinga is in the Delta of the Ganges^ and is cor- 

 ruptly called Modo-Galinca by Pliny. Moga-Ca- 

 linga extends from the eastern branch of the Ganges 

 to cape Negrais in the country of the Migas or 

 Mugs : this is obviously the Macco-Calingce of Pli- 

 ny. Calinga implies a country abounding with 

 creeks and is equally applicable to the sea shore 

 about the mouths of the Inaus. 



Shama, and his disciple Sa-rasa'la, are perhaps 

 the same, who are called Sam and Zal-zer or Sal 

 the white in Persian romances : certain it is that 

 they lived in that country. The father of Sam was 



Neriman, 



