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at its confluence with the Ganges, there is a very ancient place, and fort 
called to this day Permasa...’ 
Ter next river is the hateful Carmmandasa, so called, because, by the 
contact alone of its waters, we lase at once the fruit of all our good works. 
Its source is in that part of the Vindhya hills called in the Puraivas 
Vindhya-maulicd, which implies the heads, peaks or summits of the original 
mountains of Vindhya. 
_ Tuts mountam presumed once to rear his head, above that of Hindlaya, 
and thus consigned it, and the intermediate country, to total darkness. 
One day Vinpuya perceiving the sage Acasrya his spiritual guide, pros- 
nated himself to the eround before him, as usual, when the sage as a pun- 
ishment for his insolence, ordered him to remain in that posture. We had 
Arun monntains formerly in-the west, which kept the greatest part of Europe 
in constant darkness, and which must have met with a similar fate, though 
nat recorded. . All the ground he covers with his huge frame is denomina- 
ted Mauilt, or the heads or peaks of Vindhya, and ts declared to be the origin- 
al VinbHYA, ine gives its name to the whole range, from sea to sea, and is 
supposed to extend frem the Sowa to the Tonsa. As the Carmmandsd 
comes from the country of Mault, there is then a-strong presumption, that 
itis the river Omalis of Megasthenes: thus the great river, which ke calls 
Commenasis, isthe Saray, and is so called, because it comes from the 
country of Comanh, or Almora. The river Cacut’his of the same author is 
the Puna-pund, and is so called because it flows through the country of 
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