SACRED ISLES IN THE WEST, &C. 339 



came to Benares, about nine years ago, a most re- 

 spectable native from that country, called Bhagi- 

 rat'ha : being very old, he wished to die on the 

 banks of the Ganges, at the holy place of Casi. 

 He had been to C/ntia, and favoured me with a 

 short account of his journey. There, he says, that 

 the Bitrrampooter is the same with the Hladini, 

 and that the Hara-moren is the Nal'mi. This 

 river, says he, is also called, by Hindu pilgrims, 

 the Burrah-attaca, or great Attack, or forbidden 

 river. He had promised to favour me with further 

 'particulars ; but soon after, the venerable old man 

 breathed his last on the banks of the Ganges. 



The dwipa of Chandra in the West will appear, 

 in the course of this work, from the Furaiias, to 

 include the British isles : but as it is considered 

 here as one of the nine grand divisions of the Em-^ 

 pire of Bhdrata, the Paurcniics must have com- 

 prehended under that appellation a more extensive 

 region altogether, than the British isles, and in- 

 cluding the Western parts of Europe, under the 

 name of Liguria, or Lloegyr, ^vhich I shall shew 

 hereafter to be synonymous with the country of 

 Chatidra, or Limus, emphatically called Urupa, or 

 the Lord of the Zodiac. The king of the dwipa of 

 Chan'dra being considered as a vassal, was occa- 

 sionally summoned to appear before his Lord Pa- 

 ramount, with all the Kings of the world in India, 

 at least, according to the Revd-cJiatida, a section 

 of the Scanda-purdna. 



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