ViCRAMADITYA AND SALIVAHANA. 1^5 



DsoRio, a Portugueze writer, says, that when 

 Francis DAlmeida landed, near Cambdt, in the 

 year 1519, he saw the ruins of sumptuous buildings 

 and temples, the remains of an ancient city, the 

 history of which was connected with that of a fo-^ 

 reign prince. My Pandit informs me, that such 

 ruins exist to this day, not close to Cambcit, but at 

 a place called Cavi or Caiu-gaurv, to the south of 

 Camb/it, on the Baroach side, and a little to the 

 southward of a place called Cima, and in the maps 

 Canwa. There are temples and other buildings, with 

 statues half buried in the sands, with which this 

 place was overwhelmed. Its Sanscrit name is Capila- 

 graniy from which is derived its present one. 



The promontory of Aista-Cainpro7i, mentioned in the 

 Periplus, at the entrance of the gulf, appears to me 

 to be Groapnaught point. It was thus called, because 

 it was on the side of Stambha, and Tdmra, or Cdmbcit. 

 Another name for it was Papicd, from a place of that 

 name in its vicinity* As it is the same place called 

 PaJddarS by Ptolemy, the true reading will stand 

 thus, Bhaucd-derd, Bhauld-derd, Bhaui, or Bhdmcd- 

 derdy that is to say, the house or dwelling place of 

 Bhau or Bhaui, an ancient hero of that country, 

 who built the town of Bhau-nagara, or Bhavi-gauzv, 

 and probably the same with Bhau-ki dera. Beyond 

 this cape, according to the Periplus, there is an- 

 other place, toward the north, much exposed to the 

 waves ; and at the entrance of it, that is to say, of 

 the channel leaditig to it, is an island called Baiones. 

 This island is that of Berwji, at the entrance of the 

 channel, leading among shoals to the dwelling place 

 of Bhaui, or Bhau-nagara, on the river Bhaui, and 

 ne^r the point of the same name. There is also a 

 sand thus called ; and the island of Baiones pro- 

 bably claims the same etymological origin ; and per- 

 haps, instead of Baiones in the original, we should 

 read Baio-nhos, or the island of Bhau or Bhaui. 



