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seen. I think, this has-been also the fate of the Dhitmydt?¢, which is now 
absorbed by the sands. . This Dhiimyat?, seen'at Bacear by Capt. Covert, 
did. not come from Hendown, but fromsome place in the desert, still un- 
known, but I suspect that it is the river, without name, placed, in Arrow- 
sMITH’s map, to the E. N. E. of Jaysulmere. Tv passes near a village called 
Lauty or Latyanh, which village is said to be twenty Cos to the east of 
Jaysulmere, by the late: Major D. Farvey, who travelled twice that way, — 
in the years 1787 and 1780: according to him there is no river, nor 
branch of the Indus between Jaysulmere, and Baccar. He was a well 
informed man, who understood the country languages, and in his route 
he always took particular notice of the rivers which he crossed. The 
Damiadee is now called by the natives, Lofree or Rohree, from a 
town of that name, near its confluence with the Indus. Iam assured, 
. that, during the rains, the backwater from the Indus, runs up the dry 
bed of a river, for a space of three days. This dry bed is supposed, to 
have been formerly the bed of a river, formed by the united streams of 
the rivers Caggar, and Chitangh from the plains of Curu-cshetra, but 
this I think highly improbable. 
Te next is the Charmmanwaii, or abounding with hides. It is often 
mentioned in the Purdras, and is called also Charmmabala, and Siva- 
nada, in the spoken dialects Chambal and Seonad. It is sometimes repre- 
sented as reddened with the bloody hides put to steep in its water.” 
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* In the Mégha Dita this river is said to have originated in the blood shed by Ranri Deva 
at the Gomédhds or offerings of kine. 
