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llie Chinese called India Shinto, and Into, Sind, and 

 Hind: they call it also Tientso, and divide it into 

 five parts -/middle Tientso, with North, South, East, 

 and West Tieiitsc. My. Deguignes says, they 

 called India Mokiato, and Polomuenkotih, or country 

 of Polomuen ; Mokiato, tlie Magatta of the JapanesCy 

 is Magad'lia, including all the Gangetic provinces ; 

 and it was called Polomutn, from the famous Em- 

 peror Pulima'x, or PoLOMAX, called by Deguig- 

 NEs, Houlomien and Holomiento. The Chinese 

 gave the name of Magadlia to all India ; because 

 their knowledge of that country, and their inter- 

 course, was for a long time confined to Magad'ha, 

 which is also called Ami-Gangam ; distorted, by 

 those of Tibet, into yhiG?ikhe?ik, and Andkdk by the 

 Tartars, who have no other name for India. Thus, 

 in the Empire of the Burmahs, they call India Ca- 

 lingaharit, from C a ling a, or the Peninsula' o^ India, 

 with which they are better acquainted : harit in their 

 language, and harita in Sanscrit, signifies country ; 

 and the whole compound the country of CaVinga. 

 The metropolis of India was situated on the banks 

 of the Kengkia, or Ilengho, the Ganges. This river, 

 says the same author, they call also Kiapili, because, 

 I sup])ose, it enters India through the pass of Capila, 

 called, in the life of Timur, Kupele. 



The name of the Metropolis was Chapoholo-ching, 

 Kiusomopoido-ching, Potoli-tsching, answering to Pd- 

 tali, Cusiond-puri, the well known names of P^^w^. 

 Chapoholo answers to Samalla, or Sambala, now Sum- 

 bulpoor, written also Sabel-poor, and close to Patna : 

 and is obviously meant for that city, by the Chinese, 

 as well as by Ptolemy. 



Another Chinese name for it, is Cutukilopoido, 

 which I must give up, unable to reduce it to its 

 original Sanscrit, or Hindu standard. 



In the year 408, Yuegnai king of Kiapili, that 



