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father was called Mir’n«, and from him the son was called, in a deriva< 
tive form, Mair’aa and Mair’Hia. 
_ Tue next river is the Camalé, which retains its ancient name. The town 
of Dwara-bhangd, was originally on its banks; according to the Biivana- 
COS a. it was ed a very extensive town with a fort built at a very early 
period. “What was its original name is unknown: for Dwdra-bhangé, signi- 
fies that the gate, either of the fort, or of the palace of the Rdjd, had been 
destroyed, probably by a sudden overflowing of the river Camalé. It was 
repeatedly destroyed, during the wars of the natives with the Muselmans. 
It is now a small town, and the palace of the Rdjés is no longer on the banks 
of the Camald, but on the Bacayd, called in the maps Buckiah, a little to 
the westward of the old site of the town. © It, appears to me, that the river 
Camalad, was from ithe lows being on its banks:called the Dwara-bhangé 
river, and synonymous with Dwara-baha. — It is. then the river Tiberoboas 
and Taberuncus for Tabero-bancus, mentioned in. an account of the 
Brahmens by a certain Palladius, who wrote in the latter end of the fourth 
century. The name of this town is'written Dwara-bhanja and’ Dwara- 
bhaanga, and also Dara-bhanga, and it is the Durbungah of the maps, 
‘and they all signify that the gate or door, had been broken down or 
carried away. In scripture likewise the gate of a town or-of a palace 
was no insignificant building: there were held public mectings, and it 
was also a court of justice: On the banks of the Camala was the native 
country of Calanus; for it is obvious. from. the: above account, that 
with regard to persons travelling from the west, this river was to the 
eastward of the Ganges. It appears also that the country on its banks 
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