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be in the Cshtrattram, or on the borders or skirts of C shir a ^ or the JVhite 

 Island. The skirts of the Silver Island might, with equal propriety, be 

 called Tar a-tir am or Tdr-t-trr 3,3 it would be pronounced in conversation. 



Another name for Hram-'is CacJtha. This signifies, they say, a low 

 swampy shore or tiram: but this interpretation is far from being adhered 

 to in India : and whether we consider it as the name of a part of Switam 

 simply, or as implying only its shores, is a inatter of no consequence in 

 the present case. 



This name is' applied to some extensive distrifl of the BrUisk Isles ^ in 

 the Vdyu, and Vdrdha-purdn'as. In the first is a list of mountains, rivers 

 and nations in Cetu-mdla or Europe ^ and the author begirt!^ first with the 

 Tatsuc'hasy probably the Tectosaccs; then he jiroceeds to the nations 

 called Samudrdntdracas, that is to sacy, living In the ocean r there we 

 find the CarambJiavas, the Cuchas^ SzVetas; Siiv&rn atatacus'^ (who live 

 in the tat or tir oi Suvarna ox Ireland^} the Swetdngas' &c. 



In the Vardha-purdn'ay the Cuchas are ^called, in some manuscripts, 

 Cunchas; but the true reading, according, tO' the learned, is either Cucha 

 or Cack'ha; and they are inclined to admit the latter, the other readings 

 being without any etymological meaning,- which ought not to be the case- 

 Besides, Cach'ha answers to the SuvurnatatataSy or those who live on 

 the borders of Suvarna; and here in all raamiscripts, and in every book 

 in which it is mentioned, it is always joined with the ^Swet'aSy in tlijs 

 manner, Cach'ha-S'wetay or ihe Sweto-Cack'has ;'\ix like manner we say 

 Volcce-Tectosages, Anglo-Saxons: and whether we read Cucha^ Cacha or 

 Cach'ha, is of no consequence. In India, the country to the east of the 

 Indus, along-, the sea shore, is called in the maps C^^cA, but its Sanscrit 



