'anugaxgam, &c. 6s 



live upon fish, would never give np tlieir favou- 

 rite food, when raised to the priesthood: and their 

 descendants, the Bengal Brdhmens live upon fish 

 even to this day. The same circumstance is men- 

 tioned in the Vishnu-Purmia. Tlien, afte wards, a 

 Guptai-ansa, or ohscure race, will reign all over 

 ylmi-Garigam, or the Gangetic provinces ; some in 

 Saccta, (or Oiuk) otliers at Padmck'ati, (or Patiia ;) 

 Prayag, (or Allahabad) Mathura, (or Muttrci) and 

 Canti-piii'i, (now Cutzcall, nine cos to the north of 

 Gzvalior). Here no mention is made of Gaiir in 

 Be7igal: and indeed, its kiugs are never noticed by 

 the Paiiran'ics. 



VI. The following towns are placed, obviously, 

 in the coiintr}^ of Tibet, by Ptolemy, and in the 

 Peutingerian tables. Their names are Aris, Orosana^ 

 Aspagora (or A spa corn,) Pa liana (the same with Par- 

 iJiona,) Thogara, Abvagana, Of/orocoras, Sclana, with 

 the river JBautes (or Baufisus). These are in the 

 country of the Batce, (or Budian) seemingly limited 

 to the districts round Lassa ; wliich, it is highly pro- 

 bable, was originaliy the case. The situation of 

 Aris is at the meeting of two roads; one from Ta- 

 hora, and Hard-.car (probably tlie Porta of Pto- 

 lemy;) and the oti^cr from Cabul, through the hills. 

 From tlie nature of the country, there is every rea- 

 son to suppose, that the place, v/here they met, has 

 not altered its situation. Thos;ara, at the other ex- 

 tremity, and on the river Calincins, is obviously the 

 present Tonker, on the river CalcJicw, near Lassa. 

 The distance between Aris and Thogara, in the Peu- 

 tingerian tables, arising from the intermediate ones, 

 amounts to \75. But these -cannot be miles, no>^ 

 €,\Q\\cos: let us suppose them to be 157 iifjj anas, or 

 771. B. miles; which would be suftlcientiy accurate. 

 From Aj^is, to Orosana, (the Thnhrassaie, of the ta- 

 bles, and now called Arijitn-^) ^Ci 1/6 j anas, or I96 B. 



