from the Ancient Books' op the Hindus. 301 



In the centre is Jambu, or the inland part of Ajfy ; to the eaft of it are 

 Arig a, Yama and Yamala, reckoned from north ' to fouth ; to the weft, 1 

 Sanc'ba, Cujha, and Varaha, reckoned -from' lo l utK'' to north'': Yama and 1 

 Ciijha are faid to be due eaft and weft' in refpe€t of India) '; and this is indu- 

 bitably proved by particular cucumftaneeSo 



Sa nc s h a dwip is placed "in the fouth weft, fuppofed to be connected' 

 with Yamalu, and with it to embrace an immenfe inland fea ; between them 

 the Hindus place La/ica, which they conceive extended to. a confiderable 

 diftance as far as the equator.; fo that Sane ha mufl be part of Africa, and 

 Yamala ot Malaya, the peninfula of Malacca with the countries adjacent. 

 This notion of a v aft inland fea Ptolemy feems to have borrowed from 

 the Hindus \ whom he faw at Alexandria ; for, before his time, there was 

 no fuch idea among the Greeks ': he calls it Hipp ado s j a word, which feems 

 derived from Abdhi, a general name for the fea in the language of therBrdk- 

 mens. We may collect 'from a variety of circumftances, that Cujha dwip 

 extends from the (hore of the Mediterranean, and the mouths of the Nile, 

 to Serbind on the borders of India, ' 



In a fubfequent divifion of the globe, intended to fpecify fome diftant 

 countries with more particular exaclnefs, fix dwipas are added ; Plac/ka, Sdl- 

 mati, Crauncba, Sdca, Pujkcar<>, anil a fecond Cu//u,c.d ed Cu/kadv/ipawifhout, 

 in opposition to the former, which i faid :o b w't'.nn ; a diftinction ufed 

 by the Brdbmens, and countenanced in the Purdnas, though, not 'pofitively 

 exprtlTed in them: the fix new dwipas are funpofed to 'be contained within 

 thofe before-mentioned; and the Pwanas differ widJy in their accounts 

 of them, while the geography of the former uivifion is uniform. 



