348 AN ESSAY ON THE 



hura-rasa, Cummaphala, some read Madhura, Ra- 

 saca, Sumaphala, (this last is the nameot the coun- 

 try at the source of the Ganges, according to the 

 divines of Tibet, and the lake Su-Mapauh seems to 

 be called by them the sea oY iMatroba)'Sali/a-7nan'i 

 the jewel of the sea, Lavan'a the sea of salt, 'Sanc- 

 ha, Mauctica, Abja, Mundacim, Uttara pan'dya, 

 or North Pandu, on ths banks of the Ilystaspes. 

 Between the river Shuriui and Mofhura on the 

 Yannmci, is Bhurata, and the Sauviras, (Suir in 

 the spoken dialects,) Siighna, Dtvj/a, (a river, the 

 Vipds'a or Beyah,) Satadni, 'Satlqj, the countiy of 

 Rdmata^ ^Salava, Tra'igartta, now Tdhorah, Pau- 

 rava or country oi' Purii, (Porus,) Ambashta Bad, 

 near Tanchsar, lyhanya, Yand'heya or country of 

 Yuddlia, Ayoud between the Vetastd and Sindliu, 

 the country of Sarasvata, Arjundyana^ Matsya, 

 Ardd' hn-grdma, Hastyds'vapura, Mangalya, Paush- 

 tica, tiacta Carun'ya. The following tribes drink 

 of the waters of the Airdrati ; Ravy, Vitastd, and 

 Chan'drabhdgd, the Prasfhalas, Mdlava, Caicaya^ 

 Das'arn'a, i shinara. The country of Cakaya is 

 acknowledged to be Cabul, and Malaga is Matwa, 

 and of course they cannot drink of the Avaters of 

 the above mentioned rivers : such blunders and 

 inaccuracies are very frequent in the Purdnas : in 

 the present list Cdsmira is [placed to the North- 

 East of India : and I could point out many more. 



III. The Tacsha-silas mentioned in this list, are 

 called Tacshilas in the Vfihat-cafha, and their 

 country is said there to be. on the banks of the 

 Vitastd, or Hystaspes. They still exist as a nu- 

 merous tribe, under the name of ^Syalas or 'Seyalas, 

 and are divided into several branches ; the Sydlas 

 proper, \\\os{i oVSydl-cote, of Jekung-Sydl, whose 

 principal town is called Ychiaigsidlan, by Major 

 Kennel, the Cac-Sydlas, &c. 

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