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to the Ciida, and also for the waters of the Brahmaé-putra; he then fleng 
the fatal instrument into the Cutda. The cleft is calied to this day 
Prabhu-Cuthara, because it was made with a mighty Cut’hara, or cime- 
tar. ‘This is obviously the legend of Perseus, and the Goraon’s head. 
‘Tur Brahmd-putra, is also called Hrédini, as I observed im a former’ 
Essay on the Geography of the Purdias. This word, sometimes’ pro- 
nounced Hladiné, signifies in Sanscrit a deep and large river, from Hrida, 
to be pronounced Hrada or nearly so, and from which comes Hradana 
and Hrddini. In the list of rivers in the Padma-purara, it is called 
Hradya or Hradyan, and its mouth is called by Protemy the Airradén 
Ostium, or the mouth of the river Hradan: and according to him, another 
name for it was Antiboli, from a town of that name, called also by Pruxy 
Antomela, in Sanserit, Hasii-malla, in the spoken dialects Hdtii-malla, now 
Feringy-bazar to the 8. E. of D’haccd. 
Ex Eprissi says, that inthe Khamdan, which joins the Ganges,* there 
was a Trisula, or trident, firmly fixed in the bed of the river. It was of 
iron, had three sharp prongs, and rose about ten cubits above the surface 
of the water, and says our author, its name, in the language of India, was 
Barsciul, or in Sanscrit Vara or Bara-sila, the most excellent trident. 
Near this iron tree, was a man reading the praise of this river, and saying, 
« Othou, who abundantly bestowest blessings; thou art the path leading 
“to paradise; thou flowesi from sources in heaven, the road to which thou 
* P, 69 & 70. 
