Vol. VIII, No. 5.) Fr. A. Monserrate’s Account of Akbar. 207 
[V.8.] 
amoras, E a fruita mais ordinaria como sam macans,/ da 
nafega, tem todas . as aruores, despinho, E toda a ortalica, 
tirando, alfaces e alcegas. Tem dez rrios/ caudaes, cuios 
nomes, sam os seguintes, taphi, q vai ter a currate, Naruada, 
a baroche, Sambel [Ceambel ?]/ G se mete, em Jamona, 
Jamona, 4 se mete no ganga, A, ganga, sae em bemgala, 
Catantilge, / beha, Raoij, chenao, behét, Eo indo, onde, estes 
cinco se metem./ 
No Industan, ouue Reis xpaos 0s quaes foram, desapos- 
sados, E destruidos pollos partos, a 4 agora/ chamamos patanes. 
O derradeiro Rei pao se chamaua Dauid Como cota Sancto 
Antonino./* perto de hum anno,! os netos De temurlan, 
por uarios successos, De guerra q tiueram, com 0S descitdétes ,/ 
de Cymguisqhan, se uieram, recolhendo pera as terras Do 

1 I propose: ‘* Perto de hufis annos >» — After some years. 

form of the Sanskrit Airavati, a form which we can trace in the Adris 
or Rhouadis of Ptolemy, ie fa oe of Arrian, the Hyarotis of 
Strabo. | Cf. McCRINDLE, op. ¢ 
The Chenad [Chen] is stashed by oo with the ‘‘Sanda 
balis’? or Sandabal of Ptolemy (Mong. Leg. , fol, 62a. 3). Abul 
Fazl says that its Phe al was Si dar naga (Ain, I, 310.) 
. Cét ‘ ndab 
Pp ke 
mistake for Sandabaga, a transliteration of  Chandrabhiigs: one of the 
Sanskrit names of the Chenaib. The Chen age also called Asikni in 
Vedic hymns; hence Akesinés in Alexander’s ti 
e Behét, identified by Monserrate wit e Bydaspes_(Mong. 
Leg. Comm., fol. 6 ), and by Abul Fazl with ae Bidasta (Ain IL. 
: b 
311), is the Bihat or Jhelam, the Bidaspés of Ptolemy, the Hydaspes 
of other classical writers, rsh oe * the natives of Kashmir, 
Gi skrit. Cf. 
OCRINDLE, op. cit., p. 89. 
t may be seen by these identifications a ae ee oe os had 
anticipated many much later discoverie a AS one 
graphical researches with those of Father Joseph qotacniae, 2 
in sg oes s Descr. de V’ Inde, 1, pp. 4 
See and his’ velniens were partic onlarly hag in their render- 
ing of at ot the proper names in she aragraph. We have Barote 
for Baroche; Cambarate for Cambaiéte; Oga fot a; Catanul for 
Catanulge ; Cebcha for sea Rebeth for Behét. The same mistakes 
oce i 
nd Pur 
e of Monserrate’s bite theories is that there were sor 
merly Christians in Kabul and at Gwéaliar, and that Christian kings 
hi n ev’ a 
j 
invasion is9Bh, It is a common fi hanmaden name, and may have 
been taken for Christian by medieval writers. 
