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least is unknown to the pilgrims, who visit that country ; and the 

 'Jrubd, or ' 'Jrub tribe is mentioned in the Ayin-Acberi.* 



The same may be said of Cold-hala, which, I am sure, never was 

 meant originally to signify a country full of noises ; for near it, is 

 another district called Tdla-hala in the Varaha-mihira-Sanhita, and the 

 Puranas ; the inhabitants of which, are now called Tdla-Burji. The 

 general name of the country, it seems, was Hala divided into Cold- 

 Hala, and Tdla-Hala. In the Cumarica-c'han'da, this country is 

 called Calahavyanjaca, or country of noises. 



According to the Scanda-purana, section of Reva, it is said, that 

 from this place, Vasu-raja advanced toward the west, crossed the sea, 

 and carried his conquests to the limits of the west, as far as S'aca, or 

 Cshira-dwipa, or the White island, according to the Vayu-purana. 

 Unfortunately every great king is asserted to have conquered all the 

 world, which is considered, it seems, as a necessary achievement. 



On the eighth, early in the morning, the pilgrims proceed, in a 

 N. W. direction, toward a place called Shabda-coti-cote, distance about 

 twelve cos, or 23 British miles. About half way is a singular spot 

 dedicated to S'iva, and called Chandra-cupa, or the well of the Moon. 

 It consists of three hillocks in a triangle, and having only a large 

 circular base: one of them larger than the rest, is about sixty feet 

 high, and has on its summit a bubbling spring, which intermits. The 

 crater is about three or four feet wide, and is in the shape of an inverted 

 cone. The water, which is hot, rushes up with a hissing noise, and 

 brings up with it a small quantity of sand, which with the water falls 

 again to the bottom of the crater. About twenty paces from it, and a 

 little lower, is another similar spring, but smaller, which boils up also, 

 though seldom, and then very faintly. That part of the plain, on 

 which this conical hill stands, is somewhat higher, and rises toward 

 the sea, where it forms a low point called, in the late nautical surveys, 

 Cudgerah; but its real name is Cunjardh. 



Shabda-coti-cote or the fort of the ten millions of noises, heard 

 there at least formerly, is called also Saptdoarna or with seven enclo- 

 sures. It is supposed to be eight cos, or fifteen miles from the sea ; 

 and is situated at the western extremity of that range of hills, which 

 begins near the Udb, and runs westerly, in a parallel direction with 

 * Vol. II. p. 203. 



