150 Memorandum on the Ancient bed of QNo. 158. 



at the usually recognised length of 1666 yards*, would give about 402 

 English miles below Allahabadt, and 175 miles below Patna ; Bhaugul- 

 poor is only 364 English miles below Allahabad, while Rajmahl is 

 436 ; so that the proper site of Palibothra, according to this calculation, 

 would be about half way between the two latter stations. Rennell, in 

 his " Memoir of the Map of Hindoostan," has shown, however, that the 

 Roman mile and Greek stadia varied so much that it is impossible to 

 say what was the real length of the Roman mile given in Pliny's 

 Itinerary. The following are the distances as given by Pliny. 



Roman Miles. 



Taxila on the Indus to the Hydaspes, (Jelum,) .. .. 120 



From Hydaspes to the Hyphasis, (Beyah,) .. .. . • 390 



,, Hyphasis to Hysudrus, (Sutledge,) .. .. .. 168 



„ Hysudrus to Jomones, (Jumna,) .. .. .. . . 168 



„ Jomones to Ganges, .. -. .. .. ..112 



„ Ganges to Rhodopa, . . .. . . .. ..119 



,, Rhodopa to Calinipoxa, (a City,) .. . • ♦• •• 167 



Carried over, . . 1244 



the Indus, Ganges, and Burumpootur in the first class ; the Soane, Nerbudda, &c. in 

 the second ; he places the Chundun in the third. The Greek text however is simply 



o Se eppavvofioaq rpirog fxkv av kuj nov. TvSiov 7rora/iw/x. 



2nd. He next quotes extracts from the Voyu, Hari Vunsa, Markunda and Ootur 

 Puranas, which go to show merely that Bali, the son of Bhooput, begat a son called 

 Balipootra, who was Rajah of Aungdes, that his capital (ninety -six miles by thirty- 

 six in extent) was Balini, which however was usually called Chumpapooree. Colo- 

 nel Franklin says, CI do not know on what authority J that Chumpapooree is the 

 Chumpanugar of the present day, a village four miles west of Bhaugulpoor ; but sup- 

 posing this to be so, it does not follow that Chumpapooree was ever called Pali- 

 bothra. It is probable, that this Bali (who in another part of the extract is said to 

 have had three sons " Aung, Bang and Culing," and all of whom were doubtless call- 

 ed Balipootras, or sons of Bali) lived long antecedent to the time of Nanda the king of 

 Magadha, who, according to Wilford, assumed the title of Bali, and from whom 

 Chundragupta and his descendants derived the title of Balipootras. It is very pos- 

 sible, that the original Bali may have dwelt at Balini, or Chumpapooree, in the vici- 

 nity of Bhaugulpoor; but this circumstance would afford no proof that the capital of 

 Chundragupta was also situated on that spot. 



3rd. Colonel Franklin states, (page 19) that in several Hindoo works Palibothra 

 is mentioned as situated in the vicinity of hills j but he has omitted to give a single 

 passage containing a fact so very important to his argument. It does not seem ne- 

 cessary to discuss the minor points of Colonel Franklin's work. 



* Adams' Roman Antiquities. 



t By the Post-office Tables, it is, 227 E. miles from Allahabad to Patua. 



