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Tue stages are vety long, and every day’s march is reckoned between 
nine and ien Cos, and as there is, I believe, a resting day, the whole dis- 
tance may amount to about sixty-five Cos or 120 British miles. 
Tuere are in Asama two rivers called Lohité, and both are mentioned 
m the Matsya-purdia, in the list of rivers; the Chacra-Lohita or greater 
Lomita, and the Cshudra-Lohita, or the lesser one. This last falls ats the 
Brahmd-puira near Yogi-gopa, and is noticed in the Bengal Atlas. ‘The 
original name of the greater Lohita is Sama@ or Sam, and this is conformable 
to a passage in the Varaha-mihira-sanhita.. There is a long list of coun- 
tries, and among those situated in the easternmost parts of India, there is 
a Sumé-tata, or country situated on the banks of the river Sama. This 
country of Sam is probabiy the country of Sym of Harrno the Armenian, 
_and it is part of Tibet, called Tsan by the Chinese. 
Tue Sama was afterward called the red river, from the following cir- 
eumstance. The famous Rama, with the title of Parasu or Parsu, 
haying been ordered by his father to cut off his own mother’s head, through 
fear of the patemal curse was obliged to obey. With his bloody Parasu 
or Parsu, or cimetar in one hand, and the bleeding head of his mother in 
the other, he appeared before his father, who was surrounded by holy men, 
who were petrified with horror at this abominable sight. He then went 
to the Brahmd-cuda to be expiated; his cimetar sticking fast to his hand 
all the way; he then washed it in the waters of the Sama, which became 
red_and bloody, or Lohita. The cimetar then fell to the ground, and 
with it he cleft the adjacent mountains, and opened a passage for himself 
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