184S.] through Afghanistan and India. 49 



Rajputs, which we know must have taken place somewhere about A. 

 D. 700.* 



Thence to the N. at 900 li (150 miles) to 



No. 108. — Ma-yi-she-fa-lo-pu-lo, 3000 li (500 miles) in extent. 

 Heretics who do not believe in Buddha. (The Chinese syllables repre- 

 sent exactly the Sanskrit Maheswarapura, but I know of no place of 

 this name to the N. of Bundelkhand. Perhaps Bhuteswara, on the 

 Jamna, may be intended : for Bhuteswara and Maheswara, being both 

 well known names of Siva, are of course interchangeable ; and as the 

 distance and bearing agree with those recorded by Hwan Thsang, it is 

 probable that my proposed identification may be correct : more especi- 

 ally as the Brahmanical celebrity of Bhuteswara agrees with the mention 

 that the place was in the possession of " heretics" who believed not in 

 Buddha.) 



From Kiu-che-lo (or Gujara, Marwar) to the N. through a desert 

 and across the Sin-tu (or Indus) to 



No. 109. — Sin-tu, Sindh, Landresse, 7000 li (1167 miles) in extent. 

 The capital is Pi-chhen-pho-pu-lo, (perhaps Pushpa-pura, or " Flower 

 town," a very common name for Indian cities. It appears to be the 

 Pasipeda of Ptolemy.) Asoka here built many stupas. (No distance 

 is given, but as the city was situated on the Indus, the bearing is suffi- 

 cient to indicate the town of Alor, which we know to have been the 

 capital of Sind, within a few years after Hwan Thsang' s visit. I should 

 prefer rendering the Chinese syllables by Viswa-pura ; but Pushpa- 

 pura appears to be the more likely name, as it is a very common term 

 for Indian cities. Thus both Kanoj and Pataliputra were also called 

 Kusumapura, a synonyme of Pushpapura, which in its Pali form oiPup- 

 pha~pura y was the common name of Palibothra amongst the Buddhists. 



Thence to the E. at 900 li (150 miles) passing to the E. bank of the 

 Indus to 



* Lieut. Maisey in his account of Kdlanjjar, (J. A. S. B.— 1848— p. 188) errone- 

 ously states that the Chandel Rajas of Mahoba were of Brahmanical descent ; hence, 

 saye he, " the title of Brimh." He has apparently been misled by the vulgar pronun- 

 ciation of Barm, which is the spoken form of Varmma, " armor," a name peculiar and 

 appropriate to the Kshatriya class. ^H> Varmma, has nothing in common with WfF, 

 Brahma. If symphony alone is allowed to guide etymology, bhram or " black bee,"may 

 equally lay claim to a descent from Brahma ; but, unfortunately for the bee, its name 

 is spelt IfflKf ■ Bhramara. Both coins and inscriptions spell the name ***Hj Varmma- 



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