436 On THE ANCIENT 
derivative form. ‘The Capucins, who had a small convent in Facpu, to 
the north of it, had some correspondence with the petty king of Bregiong.* 
Tus Bralimd-cuida, from which issues the Brahmd-putra, is the same 
which is called Chiamay by De Barros, and other Portugese writers. De 
Barros calls the Brahma-putra the Caor river, and says, that it comes from 
the lake Chamay, and from thence it goes to the town of Caor, after which 
it was denominated, thence to Strote, to Camotay, and afterwards into the 
sea. Caor is the famous town of Goda, or Gaur generally, called 
Gorgdanh, that is to say, the town of Goda. Strote is probably Sarada a 
famous place of worship mentioned in the Calicd-puraiia, and Camotay is 
the place of Camacsnya-prvi, called also Camd-pit’ha, or the seat of 
Cxmx-pe'vi. The whole country is also called Cémd-ptt’ham, pronounced 
formerly Campiad and Camta.+ 
Tus is the country called Pitan, by some of our writers of the sixteenth 
and seventeenth centuries, and which was separated from Candwanah, by 
the river Persilis according to Epwarp Terry, who says, that this river 
(which is the Brahmd-putra) comes from the country of Gor: and 
this is in some measure true for it passes through it, in its way into 
Bengal. The Chiamay lake was said to be 180 miles in circumference, 
which may be true of the country of Sayammay or Chiamay, noticed by 
* RaprpresenTazra de Padre Cappuc. Mission. della stata presente della mission delgran. Thibet, 
Roma, 1738; also Alphab. Tibet. p. 422 & 423. 
+ Ayvin AczeERt, Vol. 2d. p. 5. 
