(GEOGRAPRY ‘oF: Iypia. B77 
the metropolis. of the Baiz. Its’ Sanscrit name is Vata’ or’ Bata, so 
called: because it was situated in the Bafarmiya, or forest of the Vat tree 
or Ficus Indica, Our author says, that it is two Cos from Cuttdlam, called 
Curtalam in Major Rennewz’s map of India, and to the west of Tranque-, 
bar: it was a famous place ‘formerly; but it is hardly known in the 
Caliyug, says our author, . Close to it is Trimbalingali-grdma. Two Cos 
to the west of Vat aranya, 1s Madhydrjuna, a considerable place, and five 
Cos from this is Cumbhacolam a large place also, inhabited chiefly by 
pot-makers; hence its name, and it is the Combaconum of the maps. The 
distance between Cuttalam and Cumbhacolam is nine Cos, and? according 
to Major Rennew’s maps, it is about sixteen B. miles, which is sufficiently 
accurate. 
Tne sixth is called the Bhuvana-coga, and is declaréd- to be ‘a 
section of the Bhavishya-purdna. If so, it has been revised, and’ many 
additions have been made to it, and very properly, for in its'original state, - 
it was’ a most contemptible performance. As the author mentions the 
emperor Seiim-suan, who died in the year 1552, he is of course posterior 
tohim. It isa valuable work. Additions are always incorporated into 
the context in India, most generally without reference to any authority $ 
and it was formerly so with us; but this is no disparagement in a geo- 
graphical treatise: for towns, and countries do not disappear, like histo- 
rical facts, without leaving some vestiges behind. I have only the fourth 
part of it, wich contains the Gangetiek provinces. The first copy that 
I saw, contained only the half of what is now in my possession ; but it is 
exactly the same with it, only that some Pandit, a native of Benares, has 
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