SACRED ISLES IN THE WEST, &C. 343 



»j/^, Ihniig in the middle of thick forests, Vai^a^ 

 Pulinda, Vindliya-muwica, Vaidarhha or Bun^a- 

 Nagpooi\ Dandaca, Paunica, Maunica, Asmaca, 

 Bhoga-vard liana, Nairn ica, Chintala, And'hi^a, 

 now Teimgana^ Udbhida, Nalaca, AUca. 



The next are in front of the Vind'hya mountains : 

 Suryacdra^ Colavdna, Durga, Ccditaca, Pidtya, 

 Surala, Rupasa, Tdpasa, (these are probably the 

 Tabassi of Ptolemy ; for, in the Dekan, they pro- 

 nounce that word Tahasa,) Siirasita, Carancara, 

 Nhicya, Ant ara-N armada within the Narmadd, 

 Bhdnu-CacJiha, Maheya^ Sdsvata. 



The following are behind the mountains of 

 Vindliya: Mdhrca, Carusha, Mecala along the 

 Narmadd, "tailed also Mecala, Utcala, or Orissa, 

 XJttamdrdna, Des'aran'd, (the country of Dosarcne, 

 in the Periplus and Ptolemy,) Bhcja, Cish- 

 cindliaca, Tosala, (the Tosale of Ptolemy, and 

 Jesual of F/iiropean travellers,) Cos'ala, lYaipura or 

 Tipperah, Vaidica, Tumiira, Tiipura, Shatasura near 

 JVaishad'ha-desd, A nay a, (in the Vdyu Puran'a^ 

 Anuya,) Tim'dicera, Vitihctra, Uhaiiaiijaya. 



There are also other countries called Nigarhara 

 for Nagarhara, called Nak'ierhur in the Ayin 

 Acberi, near Cdbid, Hansamdrga, the Hun'sa, pro- 

 hably the white Hunni of Cosmas Ixdopleustes, 

 in the sixth century, and who inhabited the upper 

 part of thtPanjdb. Their chiefs were called Collas, 

 and it is related, that once their army besieging a 

 city, drank up all the water round it ; as water is 

 very scarce in that country, it is very possible. Dars 

 *va, Salianhaca, Trigarta, lldlava, Cirdta Tdmaaa. 



IT. In the Vard-sanhita, an astronomical trea- 

 tise, there is a more complete list. In Madliyam^ 



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