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4. Anangavati, mother of Vasavadatta. 



5. Vasavadatta, beloved by Kandarpaketu. 



I have, &c. 

 (Signed) Alex. Cunningham, 

 Bt. Capt. Senior Commissioner, Tibetan Frontier. 

 Camp Gingal, 1st December, 1847. 



(True Copy) 



John Lawrence, 

 Officiating Resident* 



From Capt. Cunningham, Senior Commissioner, Tibetan Frontier, 

 To John Lawrence, Esq. Officiating Resident, Lahore. 



Dated Camp Hazroo in Chach, \%th December, 1847. 

 Sir, — I have the honor to report to you that I reached this place 

 yesterday via Mozafarabad and the Hazara country, through six days of 

 snow and ten days of rain. Herewith I beg to forward a diary of my 

 marches up to this date. 



2. In my letter No. 8 of the 20th ultimo, I reported to you that I 

 intended to communicate with Doctor Thomson from Mozafarabad, but 

 on my arrival there, I found that owing to the continual fall of snow 

 all the passes towards Gilgit had become closed for the season, and I 

 could not find any one who would undertake to convey a letter to Gilgit, 

 or even to Chelas on the Indus. For the same reason I was obliged to 

 relinquish my intended exploration of the Kishen-Gunga river ; but this 

 I regret the less as I understand that the whole course of the Kishen- 

 Gunga has during this year been examined by Mr. Vans Agnew. 



3. Under these circumstances I took the only route left open to me 

 through the Dhamtawar and Hazara districts ; and I have the satisfac- 

 tion to report to you that I have discovered the ancient names of these 

 two districts in the times of Alexander the Great and Ptolemy the Geo- 

 grapher. As these are two points of much interest and value in the 

 comparative geography of the Punjab, a few details regarding them may 

 perhaps be acceptable. 



First. The present Hazara district is the actual country of King 

 Abisares of Alexander's historians. Its identification is established by 

 the following statements of ancient authors. Abisares was King of the 



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