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neously called Sourba by Ebn Haucal. El Edrissi says, that from 

 Dobil, on the first limits of India, to the island, or rather peninsula of 

 Mon'd or cape Monz, there are six miles ; but the distance is obviously 

 wrong. From Mon*d to Coli six miles. This little town, which he 

 calls in another place Cas-Cahar, is in the island of JDomai, or rather 

 on the continent opposite to it. Coli signifies a creek, as well as Cha- 

 rizan, the Rizana of Ptolemy. From Coli, says El Edrissi, to Subara 

 near the sea, there are five days' journey ; hence to Sandan, or Sindan, 

 according to Ebn Haucal, there are five also. Subara falls in at Sapara, 

 or Bastdh; Sindan, or Sinda is the present Tha't't'ha. This Sinda, 

 or Sindia, says Ebn Haucal, was called also Mansurd. This is the 

 Sinda of Stephanus of Byzantium ; the Sindomana of the historians 

 of Alexander. Sindhu-mdna signifies the mansion, on the river Sindhu, 

 and its present name Sind-Tha't't'hd signifies the inclosed place on 

 the Sind. It is true, that El Edrissi, misled by the similitude of 

 names, has confounded these two places with Supara, and Sandan near 

 Bombay. But Ebn Haucal mentions these two places, and his Geo- 

 graphical information does not go beyond the gulf of Cach'ha. 



The sixth is called Sabalassa, a very uncommon name : but the 

 Bhagavat accounts for it, in a curious legend relating to the Sindhu- 

 Sdgara-sangama. Bacsha the eldest son of Swayambhuva or Adam, 

 but not born of a woman, was directed to marry ; and to proceed to 

 the pro-creation of mankind. He obeyed, married, and had two sons 

 Harydsva, and Sabaldsva. They both went to the mouths of the 

 Indus : Harydsva placed himself near the western branch, and Saba- 

 Idsva, probably near the branch of that name ; and in a short time 

 they produced each a thousand male children : but they all went to 

 Naraye?i'sdr, or the pool of Naraye'na, near the easternmost mouth 

 of the Indus ; renounced the world, and obtained eternal bliss. 



The seventh mouth called Loni-bdri, is that of As'apuri, and probably 

 so called from Bdri, an inhabitation, in the middle of a forest of low 

 shrubs, called Lum in that country, and Jhau on the banks of the 

 Ganges ; and which really overspreads the Delta, and the adjacent 

 country. This branch is not to be mistaken for the Nala-Sancara, 

 which is to the west of the Indus, and which it rejoins above Sewdn, 

 being a branch of it, and its old bed. The Asdpuri branch springs 

 out from the Indus, below Sewdn, and passes within seven cos to the 



