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A Royal Grant of 



on the mountain Vkncata, in Canchl,. on the two mountains of Sri s an<$ 

 S6nti\ in the great mrine of Herihera, at Sdgurafangama, Sriranga, Cum- 

 hhac,6na y Niverti, and Mahanandi, that place of pilgrimage, by which the, 

 gloom of fin is difpelled, 



id. At Oceania, at Ra'ma's bridge, and in numberlefs places famed 

 in this world for their virtue : the waters of the fea were dried by the duff 

 Scattered from the hoofs of his galloping fteeds, and the earth herfelf was 

 opprelTed and difturbed by the God* who grafps the thunder bolt, and who; 

 felt pain from the obflruction of the ocean, until multiplied force was res- 

 tored to. the world by the abundant ftreams of his immenfe liberality* . 



n o r £.. 



The holy places, enumerated in thefe two ftanzas, are all well known to the Pan Jilt , exeept Nlverti .♦ 

 the corretflnefs of the reading may, therefore, be fufpe&ech Haiala, which my NagarLm'itev pronounces to - 

 be- the -name of a ri<ver> and which one of my three- Pandits knows to be a place of pilgrimage, appears on 

 «he_ palm-leaf, bat Sdgara is written above it : if two diftinft places are intended, we find fifteen in all„ , 

 agreeably to the ninth ilanza. The firft meridian of the Hindus pafi*;s through the c'rtyofUjJajini, of which 

 we know the petition ; but, as Lancd, therefore, falls to the weft of Si/art, which Ra'm a's bridge fcems, tot 

 mark as the kingdom of Ra'van, the Indians believe,, that the ifland had formerly a much larger extent; 

 and it has been afferted, that appearances between Silan and the Maldives m fome degree juftify that belief : 

 Maldi-ve is, moft probably, a. corruption of Malajsdwfya, from the promontory of Malaya on the continent, 

 of India. 



In the following verfes, which I received from a venerable Aftronomer, Canckl alfo appears in the firfi 

 meridian, and Vjjayini fecms K diftin& from Akantl, though. feme authors infift^ that they arc one width* 

 fame city. 



Bhumedhya rec'ha canacadrilanca 

 medhyaft'hadefah cila vatfagulmau. 

 Canchi,farah fannihitam, curunam 

 cfhetram tat'ha pajjanicapyabanti, 

 Sitachafeschojjayini che deva 

 canya che rohiuc.a gargaratau.. 



'* The places in rfrc meridian Hne between the gsldm mount and laxca, are Fat/a, Gulm/t, Ca/schl^ 

 " Sannihiiafarah, Curucjhetra, Pajjaaica, Abanti, Sit&eh.ala, Ujjayinl, Dcvicanja, Rihitaca t Gargarat. 



