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it is so called because it flows through the country of Pama-hang* or Burma, ~ 
~which according to Dr. F. Bucianan is also called Pummay. Hence it 
is, that the first Portuguese writers, called one of the. supposed branches of 
the Cayan river, flowing through the Burmdn country, Cay-pumo, and by 
Puiny itis called Pumas or Pumén. "The Pauréit tics, as usual searched for 
a Sanscrit origin for it, and derived it from Pavana, which signifies wind. 
In the Cshétra-samésa it is called Su-bhadrd, or the beautiful and great 
river, The river Brahmotdari, says the author, flows by Mani-pura, and. 
going toward the east, it falls into the Su-bhadrd. ‘The Pdvani or Pauman, 
called also Su-bhadra, is the Atrdvatt, which flows by Amard-pura. — It 
forms the upper, or northern part of the river, which ProLemy calls Serus, 
the lower part of which is the Menan, which flows by Siam. The true 
spelling of the name of this river, and its Sanscrit origin, if derived from 
that language, are rather obscure, as it a not mentioned in any book, that 
Thave seen. I suspect however, that it is hinted in the Garuda-purdia, 
ina curious route performed by the souls of all those, who die, at least, in this 
part of the world. These souls, having assumed a pygmy form, no bigger 
than the thumb, which is compleated in twelve days after the decease, 
on the thirteenth are seized by the servants of Yama, and carried 
through the air to Yama-puri or Yama-cota, on the high grounds in the. - 
center of the Malayan peninsula, and called Giam-cout (Jama-cota) by 
Muselman writers. There they remain one month, and thence go by land 
to Dharma-purt in the N. W. quarter of the world, on the shores of the 
western ocean, , thier ere to be judged by Bae with the countenance of. the 
* Du Haxpe’s China, Vol. tst. p. 63. 
