A12 ON THE ANCIENT 
Puraias, Tamasi, and in the spoken dialects, and in the maps. Tonsas 
it is a most holy stream, and joins the lesser Sarayu in the lower parts 
of its course. 
Ir is omitted by Protemy, but it is the large river called by 
Mecastuenes, Commenases, or the Comaunish river, because it comes from 
the country of Comaunh, called also Almoruh. It is called Ocdanes by 
ARTEMIDORUS, as cited by SrRAEO, because it flows by the town, ae 
through the Se of Oude, called Oéta by the poet Nownus.. 
THE Ghangharé is called Gorgoris by the Anonymous of Ravenna: 
for thus I read, instead of Torgoris, as the original documents were in 
the Greek: language, in which there is very little difference between the 
letters TsthdGreek T. The Rava or noisy river, is mentioned in the lists 
of countriés utthe Purdias, otherwise it is but little known. Ina deriva- 
tive form; it becomes Ravati, and in the spoken dialects Radif and Rapti. 
THE eh act or Gand acdvatt, is called Gandac in ‘the spoken dialects, 
and it is the Condochates of Mrcasrarnss, This river is left out by 
Protemy; but it is obvious, at least to me, that he had documents shout 
it and the Sarayuw, which, either he did not well understand, or were very 
defective. All rivers to the north of the Ganges flow in general towards 
the south, declining more or less toward the east. Here Protemy has a 
river, which, according to him, flows directly Lowest ds the south-west, 
and he has very properly bestowed no name upon i What is remark- 
able is that the source of this imaginary river is really that of the 
Gandact, and its confluence with the Ganges is that of the Dewdé. On 
