Groeraraveor Ivgra, 393 
4in the Oshétra-waniasay Jangal-cshétra’ and J. ar-Chandi, all implying the 
“woody country: Inthe: a sRe oe they-are called the: Jun gle- 
mehdis or forest*cantons) 
‘« ‘AccorDine to Major Dow’s history, when the emperor Firose TH, in the 
‘year 1358, ‘was returning from Bengal, ‘he passed through the Padmavati 
‘forest, which is one of the‘old names of Patna, once the metropolis of that 
country. These forests abounded with elephants, and the emperor caught 
many. “For a similar reason; the mountains and forests of Jhar-chand are 
called, in'the Peutingerian tables, the Lymodus mountains, abounding with 
‘elephants, and placedthere tothe south of the Ganges. They really were 
“in the country of Magadh or Magd, ‘as generally pronounced, and which 
was also the name of Putna and of south Bahar. Much information con- 
‘cerning India, was derived from Arabian merehants and sailors,’ by whom 
“the Greek and Roman fleets were chiefly manned. “These to“the names 
of countries prefixed the Arabic article Al, as in ‘Al-tibet, Al-sin, ‘&c.: thus 
they said Al-mogd for Magadh, Al-murica and Al-aryyaca, for Mura 
or Muricé and Aryyict, from which the Greeks made Lin yrica aud 
: Laie.’ El-maiéd or Patna is placed, in the above tables, 250 Roman 
wiles to the ‘eastward of the confluence of ‘the Jumnd with the Ganges, 
and its name is written there Elymaide. ‘These’ forests are called Ricsha- 
van or bear forests, and the inhabitants Bhalléta or Bhéllat’ha, bear hun- 
ters or bear killers* These are ‘the Phyllite of Protemy, and the Builloits 
of Captain Rosert Covert. ‘There were also the ‘Dryllo-phyllite, pro- 
_% Mahd-bhérat, Bhishma, section. and commentary. 
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