HISTORY OF CASHM1R. 63 



and he was looked upon by the ministers as an idiot or a cheat : the king 

 notwithstanding determined to give him atrial, and allowed him at his request 

 to take from the treasury several bags of Dinar's : with these in his possession, 

 Sujjya retired to the site of a village named Anandaca, where, getting into a 

 boat, he advanced into the water : when in the centre of the pool he threw into 

 it a bag of Dinars, and he repeated this wherever the water was collected: 

 the villagers tempted by the hope of obtaining the money, combined to ef- 

 fect its recovery : they first blocked up with large stones, the channel of the 

 Vitasid where it issues from the mountains, the banks being there conti- 

 guous : they then drained the country of the accumulated water, by clean- 

 ing the canals and outlets, through which it was accustomed to run : the 

 passages being cleared by this contrivance, the dyke was broken down, and 

 the Vitasid rushing forth with an impetus, proportioned to the obstruction, 

 it had encountered for several days, hurried away every obstacle, and flowed 

 in a rapid and fertilising torrent through its old, and through many new 

 channels, to its junction with the Sindhu* These two streams formerly met 

 near the temple of Vainya Swdmi, but they now unite, observes our author, 

 between that place and Vishnuswdmi or the towns of Parihdsapur and 

 Pltalapur\ and he adds, that some old trees existed in his time, bearing the 

 marks cf the ropes which the Njshddas\ had fastened there. Having col- 

 lected massive stones to confine the Vitastd, Sujjya constructed the 3Iaha- 

 padma Saras; springing from which receptacle, the Vitastd darts forward 

 with the rapidity of an arrow from a bow.§ r 



Sujjya was not contented with remedying the evil: he also provided 



* This cannot be the Indus, but must be the Sind river, which has its source in great Tibet.— Ay. 

 Ac. ii. 158. It is not improbably a branch however of the Indus. 



f The last must be Shehabedinpur where the Behut and Sind unite their streams.— Ay. Ac. n. 158, 



% The low casts of villagers, he means, it may be supposed, and the ropes may have been part of a 

 Jhula or swinging bridge. 



| This should be the reservoir or bason at Viva Nag noticed by Forster,n. 4, and, according to the re- 

 port which he repeats, constructed by Jahangir: this is an evident error however, as the same bason is 

 thus mentioned by Abulfnzl: " at Wcersir is the source of the river Behut, with a bason measuring a 

 jerecb, whence the water rushes out with an astonishing noise. The spring is called Wirnag ; itbas a 

 stone border and on the east side are temples." — Ay- Ac. ii. 155. 



