from the Ancient Books of the Hindus. 



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was nicknamed Hdfyasila, or the Laugher j and his defcendants were called 

 from him Hdfyasilas in Sanfcrit, and, in the fpoken dialecls, Hdfyas, Han- 

 felis, and even Habafliis ; for the Arabick word is fuppofed by the Hindus to 

 be a corruption of Hajya. By thofe defcendants of Charm A they under- 

 ftand the African negros, whom they fuppofe to have been the fir ft inhabitants 

 of AbyJJinia -, and they place AbyJJinia partly in the dwipa of Cufia, partly in 

 that oi Sane ha Proper. Dr. Pocock was told at the Cataracts, that beyond 

 them, or in the exterior Gfka-dwip, there were /even mountains; and the 

 Brdhmens particularly affecT; that number : thus they divided the old continent 

 into feven large iflands, or peninfulas, and in each ifland we find feven dulriclis 

 with as many rivers and mountains. The following is the Paurdnic divifion 

 of Cufha-dwip called exterior with refpect to that Qiijambu ; 



Districts,, 



Mountains. 



Rivers* 



' l Apydyana. 



Pujhpaverffia. 



Nandd. 



Paribhadra, 



Cumudddri. 



Rajanu 



Devaverjha. 



Cimdddri. 



Cuhu. 



Raman aca. 



■ Vdmade'va. 



Sarafwat}. 



Sumanafa. 



'Satahinga. 



Sinivdlz. 



Surochana.. 



Sara/a, 



Anumat}. 



Avijnydta. 



Sahafrafruii. 



Raca. 



It feems unnecefiary to fet down the etymologies of all "thefe names; but it 

 may not be improper to add, that 'Satasnnga means tyffl a hundred 

 peaks, and Sahafrafruti, with a tboi/fand '/reams. 



•Between- the interior Cijha-dmf/yai^t^anc^a' Proper lies, According "to 

 tlicPurdm, on the banks of the Niti r , the. country of Barbara ; which in- 



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