Grocrarryver EXpra. A231 
Yuh Teshmait isthe Oxymatis of Mrecstiixes, for thas we should 
read insiead of Qanpndetsy the'sameé substitution of fF far Thaving takéh 
place, that was neticedin a formey instancé. It is also the Hypobarus of 
Cresias, who says, that itis a river in India about two furlongs broad, and 
that its name in Hinds, signifies, producing every thing that is good, and, 
that during thirty days, it produces amber. A few lines after he says, 
that this. amber’ proceeds from trees called Sipachora. “TRIS: word is 
variously written in:different MSS. Some read Siptachora, and Piinv has 
‘Aphytacora* which, says he, signifies great sweetness, or very sweet. 
This last is the true reading, for it is obviously derived fromy the Sanscrit 
Mishtacara to be pronounced in the spoken dialects Mitdcora, and which 
‘signifies very sweet; from Misht‘a sweet, and’ ‘Acara, which implies 
excellence, excellently sweet. This amber is the common ‘sugar, of a 
light amber colour, transparent, and in crystals before ‘it is throughly 
‘refined. 20 | neo , 
Tue river Hyparchos, cailed Hypobarus by Puiny, ferens omnia bona, 
producing every thing that is good, is from the Sanscrit Sarva-vara, every 
thing “ood, to bé pronounced Sabobara, for they say Sah or Sub for Sarva, 
vali. “There is:a small river of that name mentioned’ in the Scanda- 
purdna,+ which falls into the Baégmati. It is called Sarvaricéd from 
. Sarva-vara; and ina derivative form Sarvaricd or Sarbarica, producing 
every thing that is good. Hypobarus and Hyparchos, are obviously 
‘ ’ '* Puy Lib. $7. Cap. 2. 
& Section of the Himavat-c’hand a. 
VOL. XIV. 5 P 
