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ing that season, the monster was never seen. Pa.uaprus supposes this river 
to be the Ganges, which seems to have been the limit of his geographical 
knowledge towards the east, but it was more probably the Brahmd-putra. 
The denominations of Par-silis or Ser-silis are now unknown in India, as 
well as that of Khamdan mentioned by Ex Epriss1, who says, that it is a 
large river, which comes from China, and falls into the Ganges. There is 
no doubt however, that at an early period it was current in India, for it is 
the Cainas of Putny, and the Doanas or Daonas of Protemy. ‘These two 
words, being joined together, make Cain-Doanas. In Sanscrit Cayan-dhu, 
and in a derivative form, Cayan-dhava or Cayan-dhau, Céyan-dhauni or 
dhauna and Cayan-dhuné, would signify the river of Céya or Brahmd, and 
of course it is‘another name for the Brahma-putra, implying exactly the 
same thing. Now Dr. F. Bucnanan says, that the western branch of the 
Airdvati is called Kiayn-dwayn, which, in the language of the Burmdn 
empire, signifies the fountain of Kzayn, which comes nearly to the same 
thing.* The case obviously, at least to me, is, that these two rivers come 
from a country called Kiayn or Cayan, and the same with that called 
Cahang in the Alphab. Tibetanum. . Itis described as an immense country 
between China, Tibet, India, Pegu, &c. It is annexed to Tibet and is to 
be pronounced Cahanh or Cé-anh. 
Epwarp Terry, and others I believe, say, that the Sersilis comes from the 
borders of Canduana, the capital of which is Carha-tanka. Canduana is 
unknown now, and is never mentioned in any book that I ever saw; but it 
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| * Asiatick Researches, Vol. 5. p. 231. 
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