498 ON THE ancienr 
corruptions from Subbara and Subbarica, for the letter IW is often substitut- 
ed:to the letter S;thus in Sanserit we have Septa seven, Septem in Latin, 
» Hepta in Greek and Heft m Persian.,,..Another name for this river, is 
Guda, because the, country on its banks, produces abundantly Guda or 
Yaw sugar. 
Cararoya.a sacred. stream in the north of Bengal. At the wedding of 
Siva and Parvati, the water, which was poured upon their hands, fell to 
the ground, and became a river called Cara-toya from Cara the hand, and 
Toya water. It is the Currdiyaé of the maps., — 
Ler us now pass. to the Brahma-putra or Brahma-tanaya, that 1s to say 
the son of Branma, or rather his efflucs! The account of this river, and of 
its various names is somewhat intricate, but above all its strange origin, 
which cannot well be passed unnoticed. It is to be found in ‘several 
Puraias, but the Calica is the most explicit on the subject; and I shall 
give it here in the abstract. 
_ Brauma, in the course of his travels, ridmg upon a goose, passed by 
the hermitage of the sage Sanranu, who was gone into the adjacent 
_ groves, and his wife, the beautiful. and. virtuous, AMocHA ‘was alone. - 
Struck with her beauty,, he made proposals, which. were rejected with 
indignation, and Amocu« threatened to curse him. 
 Brauma, who was disguised like a holy mendicant, began to tremble, 
and went away: however before he turned round, his efflux fell to the 
