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berries, and the more usual fruits, like pose of the jujube-tree.! 
There are all kinds of thorny trees, * and every sort of vege- 
tables, with the exception of lettuce sae beets. Industan 
is watered by ten rivers, called as follows: the Taphi,’ which 
asses through Currate : the Narvada, 
Baroche ; the SA4mbel,* which flows into the Jamona [Jumna]; 
the Jamona, which passes into the Ganga [Ganges]; the 
Ganga, with its mouth in Bemgala; the Catanilge,® Beha,’ 
Raoy,® Chenas,* Behét,'° and the Indo, which the last 
in. 
n Industan there were oe pee who were dis- 
David. Inabout a year, the descendants of Temurlan, thanks 
to their successes in their wars against the eae of oo 
1 In the Ain, I, 64—73, there is a chapter on fruits a the places 
they came from. Grapes came from Kashmir and Kabul; cherries, 
apples, pears, peaches, apricots, were mo ee pe Kabul. 
a 
2 Arvores de espinho (tet. thorny trees) compr ise "lath tebe orange- 
trees, etc. Peruschi has: “‘limoni cedri, naranzi.’ 
6 The Ain, II, 243; III, 304, spells it Tapti and _ Papi: Monserrate 
spells it Taphi ‘and Paphti, and latinizes it ‘‘ Taphes 
*** Narvada fluvius, qui Amadabeam alluen ns, Batosii exit in mare.’ 
Mong. Leg. Comm. fol. 12a. 3.--“'The Na rbadah flows past it Bhar 
in its course to the Ocean.’’ mm, II, 243. Monserrate is wro 
making the Narbada pass through Ahmadabad. 
5 Sambel, first written Sumbal, then either Sambel or Cedmbel, 
is the ‘‘Chambal,’’ the ‘* Samballus’’ He 7 Pa mbalus ’’ of a a nl 8 
map and text in Mong. Leg. Comm. fol. He marks ow- 
ing S. of Fathpir and cae ‘(Dholpur} and N. of Gweliar. ate 
throwing itself into _ mk 3b, ibid., it is placed 
among the affluents o the Tai ie d, says Monserrate, the 
boundary gigi the Kinga of Malwa eed ‘that of Delhi. It is the 
Chambal soi 
5 We euickee where ee took form ‘‘ Satanulge ’’ 
or ‘* Outanalas from. means the Sutlej, or identifies it correct 
h the Zaradros of Pistariry, We may note here that he was familiar 
with the writings o e Greek a atin classics: Ptole y, Strabo, 
Pliny, Apollodorus, Solin , Diodorus of Sicily on the Zara peas 
: dia as described by Ptolemy, London, 1885, pe U1. 
he Biah or Beas iah was anciently called Bipasha.’’” 
Ain, Il, 310. Mon © latinizes it Bibasis, identifies it with ¢ e 
On anon of =e aa t the it of xander’s expedition 
Cf. IS G06; forms 
60a. 
Bibasis (P (Polen) ee chaets (Arrian and Diodorus); Hypasis best 
ibid, p. 0 (Stra ). The Sanskrit name was Vipasa. Cf, MoCrinpiE 
Pp 
i The Ra aoy of cae RA the Ravi. He identifies it with the 
2a (Mong. Leg. Comm 4).—‘* The Ravi, the ancient Zrawaté 
. .’’ wrote Abul Fazl iain, IL '310). The name Ravi is an abridged 

