482 Lassen on the History traced [No. 101. 



three reports is the very same with the tower of the king 

 Kanishka. From Peshawur Fabian takes a southern, Hoeiseng 

 a western direction to arrive there, the Khyber mountains lying 

 to the southwest. 



This Parushapura is the same from which Remusat, and after 

 him Mr. Ritter* presumed to infer, that the Belujens, strong 

 favourers of Buddhism, already existed at that time. I do not 

 know whether Mr. Ritter will allow these Belujens of his to 

 break a lance with a critic. 



From Foeloucha westward to Nakie there are sixteen joanas.f 

 Hiuan Thsang corrects the name into Nakoloho ; he comes 

 there from Lampho (or Lamghan), crossing the great river 

 (Cabul) ; it is a distance of 100 lis, or a little more than five 

 geographical miles. J Nakoloho lies in the valley of the river 

 Hilo, where is the town Hilo, one (geographical) mile from the 

 capital, a mountain is also called Hilo, at which Nakoloho was 

 situated, (p. 86. p. 54) 



This river on the southern bank of the Cabul cannot well be 

 any other than the Soorkhrood, and we must look for the town 

 Nakoloho at the mouth of the stream in Balabagh. The 

 Buddhist monuments, said to be near Hilo, are the same with 

 those on the Soorkhrood from Balabagh to Jelalabad. (As. Trans. 

 Ill, p. 325.) 



I imagine I recognise the river Hilo in the Hir of the map of 

 Danville and Rennel, at the junction of which with the Nilab, 

 the town Nagar is situated ; there is another river Hir to be 

 accounted for in accordance with the different narratives, which 

 is said to pass the town of Cabul. If now Hilo certainly be the 

 same name, Nakoloho also appears with the same certainty a 

 Chinese paraphrase for Nagara. 



This leads us again to the Nagara of Ptolemy, which must 

 needs be situated westward from the curvature of the Kameh 

 river. On account of the evident similarity of the names the 

 conjecture will be admitted, that his Nagara is not different 



* Erd. VII. 678. 

 f p. 85. 

 X p. 378. The five miles must be taken from the places nearest to both 

 banks of the river. 



