154 On the Ballads and Legends of the Punjab. [No. 2, 



Here the Sind (Indus) is styled Kama the Queen. Peeloo was a 

 poet and traveller who had roamed the world twelve years on his 

 mother's shoulders. There are many traditionary lines attributed to 

 him, descriptive of Huzara and its neighbourhood, but none I believe 

 are in MS. and few of the bards or peasants are acquainted with 

 more than a few stanzas. They are worthy to be collected, and if 

 not collected now, will soon be lost. 



(20.) "Where dread Aornos' forests nod, far 'mid the azure sky. 



According to Curtius, the Indus washes the roots of Aornos. Ac- 

 cording to Strabo, it is near the springs of the Indus, i. e. the issue 

 of the Indus from the pathless mountains. Arrian makes Alexander 

 visit the Indus in progress to Aornos. 



(21.) And still the tomb his name retains, an islet rock that now 



O'er Aba Sinde's pure azure veins, lifts high its castled brow. 



I have taken a liberty here with tradition and have made the rock 

 Pehoor the tomb of the Kakuss Pehoon. The names are very simi- 

 lar. The rock has much the appearance of a tomb. But although 

 Pehoon, one of the Kakuss, is said to have been slain near the spot, 

 I have never heard the rock connected with the event. Pehoon 

 was formerly an island. But since the cataclysm of the Indus about 

 fourteen years ago, it is an island only during the swell of the river, 



(22.) But Pugrbutt rehearsed a spell. 



I am obliged here to follow the tradition. 



(23.) And that above her hung suspent carbuncle rich and rare. 



The reader will remember the Arabian Tales in which the carbun- 

 cle is represented as luminous in darkness. This is supposed to be 

 not wholly fabulous, but it is stated that when excited by friction 

 the carbuncle or oriental garnet emits light. 



(24.) "Kuveera dread," she cried. 



Koovera one of the lesser deities of the Hindoos, appears to an- 

 swer to the Plutus of Grreek Mythology, or perhaps more nearly to 

 Vulcan as Opifex. He is the god of wealth. 



(25.) His guardian saint arose. 



The Devarshees are the saints of the Hindoos. 



(26.) A pillar' d porch of marble stone, gave access to the shrine. 



The Hindoo temple has properly neither porch nor aditus. But 

 in Kajpootana whither Greek art spread from Ariana, the temple of 



