418 ON THE ANCIENT 
was chiefly inhabited by Brahmens, or at least, that they were in great. 
numbers there; and this is very true of Tirhut. On the Divya-nadé or 
divine river, but more generally called the little Gand act is Pusha-gram, 
or the town of the sun in his character of the nourisher. It is called also 
Ptishd-ghat€; and the founder was a worshipper of the sun. The inhabi- 
tants are Bhimihdéras or husbandmen, and are very fond of liorses. On 
the seventh of the month of 4 grahayana, they worship their horses. This 
place was, it appears, famous at an early period for the breeding of horses, 
and there is now one of the Company’s studs: the place is generally called 
Poossth. 'Yo the S. W. of it is the river Numa, which, having incurred the 
sun’s displeasure, was cursed byhim, and its waters became poisonous. 
Tue Caustic? comes next and is a large and famous river commonly 
called Cus dé and Cus. It is formed by the junction of seven large streams, , 
between the two first ranges. ‘They are all called Cus¢, with an epithet 
peculiar to every one of them. ‘The main branch is said to come from the 
hermitage of the sage Causica or Vis wamitTra, which place with a village 
i its vicinity is called Cusagrama, or Cus‘aganh, and this river Cusa 
or Causais the Cosoagus or Cosoagon, in the objective case, mentioned by 
MEGASTHENES. 
‘Tre next is the Bahuda, called also Mahodé in the Matsya-purava. 
In the list of rivers in the Mahd-Bharata, we read Béhudé Mahd-nadé, : 
‘These denominations imply, many waters, great waters, or the great river. 
In the Tricanda-cos‘a it is said to be called also Saita-Vahini, or the 
white river. Its present name is Dhabalé or Dhabalt, which is also a 
