430 . _ ON THE ANCIENT 
speaking are mentioned in the Arabian Nights, and in the English translar 
tions, they are called the.rocks of adamant. ‘The other splinter is near 
Périndra, or the lion’s place in the lion’s mouth, or strait of Simcapur. 
Tis magnetic rock, or rather rocks, constitute the Maniole islands of 
Protemy, which, he says, attracted the iron nails of every ship, that passed. 
that way. ‘There were ten of them, and among the islands of Sincapur, 
there are about ten larger than the rest. Their name Maniole is obviously 
from Man in a derivative form Mantt-yala, which is admissible in the pre- . 
sent case. 
Ex Epnrissi, has placed such another splinter or rock, at the entrance of 
the red sea, and calls it Mandeb, which.I take, to be from the Sanscrit 
Man i-dwip, and in the spoken dialects Manii-déb, 
Ri mes w ara -has confounded these two splinters into one, by placing the 
latter close to the shores of the country of Cirdé, which does not extend 
beyond Cape Negrais.. ‘The trident of the lord, of the world 1s certainly 
| Vara-s‘ila, Pra-stla_and Sré-sila, -which are: denominations implying, 
excellence and power. The rock on which it stood was.of course Vara-sila, 
Para-Sila. and Sré-s ila, or the most.excellent, and blessed rock, and the river 
In which it stood. was. once so-called probably, at first by favourite poets, 
_ who sang the praises. of Manc-prva, and of his linga, not forgetting the 
rock, on which it stood, nor the. river in which it was situated: for we find 
the Brahné-putra called by European writers of the seventeenth century 
