1838.] rocks of Girnar in Gujerat, and Dhauli in Cuttach. 267 



sources of information open to the Egyptian geographers we may adopt 

 Ptolemy's locality — " Inter Suastnm et Indum sunt Gandarce" with 

 confidence. Candahar, if one of the Alexandrias, must be thrown out 

 of the question. 



Aparantuka of the Cuttach text I should have translated as the 

 uttermost boundary ' place having no beyond' — the ultima Thule in 

 short of the Buddhists ; were it not accounted by Mr. Turnour, as a 

 distinct country, one however as the glossary tells us " not yet identified." 

 The mode of spelling the word at Girnar, (Apardta,) may help us in 

 identifying it with the Aparytce of the Greeks — for Herodotus couples 

 this nation with the Gandarii as having served in the army of Xerxes 

 SaTTcryuSai Se nat Tavdaptot /ecu Aacu/ecu re /ecu Airapvrai — formed together the 

 seventh prefecture of the Persian empire, under Darius Hystaspes. 

 Who the latter were, professor Wilson says is still dubious — the name he 

 adds may be derived from apara ulterior or western, and thus the sense 

 reverts to my first supposition. But the inscription has apardtdbhata* 

 mayesu, in the boundaries of apardtdbhata ; a term more nearly agree- 

 ing with the reading of the Ptolemaean name by Isidore — aparbartica, 

 which Rennell converts into apdrbatata a low-lander*. 



Kambocha, must be the Camboja so often mentioned in Wilford's 

 essays, and by him, I know not on what authority, always classed with 

 the mountainous tract of GhaznL 



Pitenika or Peteni may certainly be the Plithana of the Periplus, 

 which Dr. Vincent, following Wilford, establishes as Pultana in the 

 Dakhan about twenty days' journey south of JBarugdza, or Baroach, a 

 mart of some importance in the time of Arrian. It may however be 

 objected that all the rest of the names denote countries not cities, and 

 that Pultana seems too near home to be mentioned among countries out 

 of India proper ; yet I can hardly concur with Wilford's speculations 

 regarding Paiihinistdn and carry it all the way to Egypt, notwithstand- 

 ing the alliance with Ptolemy-)-. 



Of Suldthika in the Cuttack text, all I need remark is that its omis- 

 sion at Girnar is so far evidence that Kattywar or the Gujerdt penin- 

 sula was included in the district of Surdshtra, — Tes-suriosta or 

 Surastrene of the Greeks. Further the orthography of the name both 

 here and in a Sanskrit inscription which I shall soon have occasion to 

 describe, is Surashtra ; not Saurashtra as modern authors generally 

 write it. And the Greek orthography is therefore the more correct. 



Of those names of countries which are indistinct in the two texts it is 

 unnecessary to say any thing until we obtain a more correct copy. 



* Wilson, As. Res. XV. 104. * Asiatic Researches. III. 338. 



