24$ 'On E'G' ypt a >r d the Nile 



fake particular care of the fpot, which their forefather had inhabited, calling; 

 it from his name, Airi-ffbdn^ After this arrangement* he left them and went 

 to the country near tht,S!ndbu i> ci Indus, fettling on the Devanica mountains % 

 where. he avoided the morning twilight, which had before been unprofperous y 

 and. produced a race eminent in viitue* for whom, when they multiplied, he 

 built the famous city of ' Nagara, emphatically fo called, and generally named 

 Deva-nagara, which flood near the fite of the modern Cdbul. 



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 Since th.Q\S-wita-giri, on which- Atri-Jl'' 'ban is declared to have flood, was 

 at no great diftance from the river Sancha-ndga, it is; mofl probably, the 

 lame, with the Amba-tzaada, or White Mountain, mentioned by Mr. Bruce*. 

 who. fays, that "it is the rnoft conflderable fettlement of the Shangalas : it Hands; 

 almoft due north- weft from Dobaroiva, and is nearer by one third to the Ma- 

 rch than to the Tacazzi. The pailis 3 or arbours, of the Sbangahzs are fully 

 defcribed by Mr. Bruce, in a manner entirely conformable to the defciip- 

 f ions of them in the Purdnas, except that they are not faid always to be co- 

 vered with fkins : the Pal/is of India live frill in iimilar arbours during the 

 greatefl part of the year. That the Sane 'hdyanas were the predeceibrs of th& 

 Shangallas, I have no doubt ,, though the former are fiid to have white com- 

 plexions,, and the latter to be black* for, not to mfft, that the climate alone. 

 would in a long courfe of years effect a change of complexion, it is probable,., 

 that the race might be mixed, or that moft of the old and genuine Sanchalas. 

 might have been exterminatec[j and Pliny mentions a race of white Ethiopi- 

 ans, who lived to the weft of the Nile, (a) Though Airi-jfbdn be applied. 

 in the Purdns to. the country alfo of the Sanchdyanas, as well as to the na- 

 tion of At Ri, yet the regular derivative from his name is A'treja -, and we- 



(a),. Lib. 5. Cag. 70, 



