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jand Musulmans formerly attributed to Eivoch, or 

 Idris. Bhagirat'ha thus brought the Ganges to 

 a place on the shores of the ocean, called Ganga- 

 Sagara^ where it was made to discharge its waters 

 through seven channels; but, according to others, 

 through one hundred. The first number is men- 

 tioned by Mela, and the other by Apuleius, 



Eois regnator aquis-in flumina centum, 

 Discurrit, centum valles illi, oraque centum^ 

 Oceanique fretis ce/^^two jungitur amni. 



" This king of the Eastern wave runs into a hun- 

 ♦' dred streams; with a hundred mouths, through a 

 *' hundred channels, like so many vallies ; andjoins 

 ■' the ocean through a hundredfold stream." 



The Ganges^ advancing toward the ocean, was 

 frightened, and fled back through one hundred 

 channels, according to the Paurariks; and through 

 this exercise she goes twice every day. 



This happened at a place called Purdn'a-Sdgara, 

 or old Scigara; for the new Sdgara is in the island 

 of that name near the sea, and the old one is near 

 Fulta, close to a place called Munda-gach'ha, or 

 Moragatcha, in Major Re nn el's Atlas. There is 

 an insignificant stream very often dry, which is 

 the true Ganges, which divides its waters into se- 

 ven small rivulets, some of which are delineated 

 in the jBc^;?«-«/ Atlas : from this circuuistance, the 

 Ganges is called Hdt-muchl-Gangd in the Spoken 

 dialects, or with seven mouths. When she is 

 called IS'dta-muchi, or with one hundred mouths, 

 this implies her numerous channels, through the 

 Sunderbunds. The old Sdgara, piobably the Oceanis 

 of DiODORus the Sicilian, is now about fifty miles 

 from the Southern extremity of Sugar island; and 



