from the Ancient Books of the Hindus. %a$ 



ding to the ancient divifion ; but, according to the new, partly in Cufha->- 

 dwip without, and part 1 y in Sanc'ha-dwip proper ; and they are fometimes 

 mmec' Cdli/ata, or banks of th; Ca/i, becaufe they are htuated on both fides 

 of that river, or the Nile of Ethiopia. By Calitata we are to underftand 

 Etb.nph, Nubia, and Egvpl : it is even to this day called by the Brdbmens 

 the country of Devatds ; and the Greek Mythologies afferted, that the 

 Go is were born on the banks of the Nile. That celebrated and holy river 

 takes its rife from the Lake of the Gods, thence named Amara, orDeva, Sard- 

 vera, in the region of 'Sharma, or Sbarma-fi'hdn, between the mountains of 

 Ajdgari and Sitdnta, which feem part of Soma-giri, or the mountains of 

 the Moon, the country round the lake being called Chdndri-Ji'hdn, or Moon* 

 land: thence the Call flows into the marines of the Padma-van, and through 

 the Ni/badha mountains, into the land of Barbara, whence it pafTes through 

 the mountains of Hemacuta in Sane ba-dwip proper } there entering the 

 forelts of Tapas, or Thebais, it runs into Cantaca-defa or Miira-fthan, and 

 through the woods, emphatically named Aranya and Atavi, into Sancbdbdh\ 

 or our Mediterranean* Fiom the country of Pujkpa-verjba it receives the 

 Nandd or Nile of Aby£inia ; the AJihimatl, or fmaller Cri/hnd, which is the 

 Tacazzi or little Alay; and the Sanc'ha-ndgd, or Mareb. The principal tribes 

 or- nations who lived on its banks, were, befides the favage Pulindas, i. thes- 

 'SiidrnucaSj cr 'Sbdmieas, 2. the Shepherds, called Pal/i, 3. the 'Sane* hay anas 

 or Troglodytes, named alfo Sdnchayani, 4. the Cufila-ce/as, or Citfildlacas* 

 5. the 'Syama-muc'basy 6. the Danavas, and 7. the Yavanas: we find in the 

 feme region a country denominated Stri-i djya-, becaufe it was governed by 

 none but Queens* 



The river Call took its name from the goddefs Ma ha'-ca'li', fuppofed 

 to have- made her nrft appearance on its banks, in the character of Raja-- 



