GuoGRaPHy or InpIA. 449 
Tuere in the Maha-nadit is Venu-garita, or the bamboo fort; but the 
sea overflowing will destroy it, and leave in many places shoals, and sand 
banks. This is the second inundation of the sea, which will do so much 
mischief to the whole country. The first, it appears from our author, af- 
fected chiefly the shores of Chat ganh. This bamboo fort, I suppose has been 
rebuilt more inland, for it still exists, and is mentioned in a French map by 
the Sr. Roger in the year 1751, where it is called Fortde Bamboux. In 
a sketch of the mouth of the river of Arécan by D’Anviux8; it is inserted, but 
without a name. It is placed there about sixteen miles to N. E. of the 
pagoda, at the entrance of the river on the left side. 
Ven ueartr is literally a bamboo pit in Sanserit, but in Hindi it is 
either Vextu-gar or Ven u-gdra: the first, signifies a bamboo fort; the 
second, a bamboo-pit, which last: e hardly admissible....'The town of 
Arécan may be called with great propriety the stone city, being surrounded 
by steep craggy rocks, cut artificially like fortifications. 
a. TBE Ardécan river, in the Bhivan-cosa, is called Mahd-nadi, or the great 
river; but its real name among the natives is unknown. Pro.eEmy calls it 
Tecosanna, the true pronunciation of which is, I believe Teku-shan or - 
Teke-shan: and we have in that country thé Teke-nd if; the inhabitants of 
Ardcan are of the Tekeu tribe, and the country is called Takain, and the 
word shdén is certainly obvious in Rau-shan another name for Ardécan, and 
I believe, that Ru or Yu, Ra’, Yat, are the names of a tribe in that country: 
for, says Dr. Bucnanan, what is written Ro, is pronounced Ye in that 
country. The meaning of Shan is unknown; but I take it to be an 
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