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at the mouth of the Narmada., tliey used boats, which 

 they called Trappaga and Cotymba ; and we read in 

 the Ayin-Acbein, that in Gujarat' the cargoes of ships 

 are put into small vessels, called Tahwery^ and thus 

 carried ashore*. I\Iy Pandit informs me, that the 

 true pronunciation is Tdberi, and in a derivative 

 form Tabericd, from which the European sailors made 

 Trappaga. Cotymba is no longer in use in that 

 country; but, from derivation, it imphes a boat 

 made of the trunk of a tree, and seems to answer to 

 the cathimarans on the Coromandel coast. * When,' 

 says our author, ' several of these canoes are put to- 

 gether, they are then called Sangard,' (from the 

 Sanscrit Hangraha an assemblage ;) but in Gujarat' 

 they are called Jiird^ from their being coupled to- 

 gether. The king of the country about Calydn and 

 Bombay was called Saragaxes; but the true Hindu, 

 name was Saranga, or Sarange'sa. He was very 

 friendly to the Greeks: but, his kingdom having 

 been conquered by San dan es, they were no longer 

 allowed to trade there f. He was king of Ariake^ 

 the country of the Aryyds ; who were foreigners, 

 according to the Brahmdnda-purdn'aX, and were de- 

 nominated Sadinoi, according to Ptolemy, from 

 the Sanscrit Scidhana, lords and masters. Thus, the 

 Portugueze were, and are even to this day, styled, 

 in Bengal, Thacurs. The English, in the spoken 

 dialects, are QdXXti^ Sdheb-logs ; but, by learned men, 

 Sddhana Engriz ; and all these denominations sig- 

 nify the lortls and masters. Thus, the famous Bhoja 

 is generally styled, in the west, Sa'dhana, or Sa'd- 

 iiANA Bhoja. Such probably is the origin of the 

 name of Sandanes, king of the Sadinoi, or Siidlia- 

 oiha. I shall speak more fully, in the next essay, 

 of these ^AryydSy in whose country was a famous 



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