450 On THE ANCIENT 
honorable title. Tt is says Captain Symzs, a very comprehensive term, 
given to different nations, whether independent or not. ‘a Wt appears to me 
that Teku-shan, was pronounced by the Portuguese Touascan, for Feke- 
shén, or Tecwd-shan, in a derivative form from Tecu-shan. Portuguese 
writers mention also another district called ‘Co-Dowascan, which I suppose 
to be Cu-Tecwa-shtn, and to allude to the invasion of the Cu or Cuci coun- 
try by the Theke tribe, as mentioned by Dr. Bucnanan. Mr. D’Anviter 
_in his map of India of the yeat 1752, mentions four places in the district of 
Chat génh; three of which. belong to Arécan: the fourth or Cu- Teeivd- 
shan, belongs to Chat ganhs being situated in the upper parts of the Carma-: 
phullé. The three other places are Towascan, or the town of Ardécan: 
Sundar or the town of the moon, in the dialect of that country, and called 
Vidhu in the Cshétra-samdsa, synonymous with Chandra or Sundar, is 
some where near the Teke-naf: the last is Soré, probably the town of Zara 
mentioned by Portuguese writers, as belonging to Arécan: its situation is 
unknown, but it is probably to the south of Arécan. 
- Wirn Portuguese writers Towascan is not the name of a river but of a — 
town, which, I conceive is no other then Ardcan, ‘the metropolis of the 
. Teke-shéin tribes. “Proxauy plices on the Tocosanna the metropolis of the 
country, and calls at Tri-lingon, a true Sanscrit appellation. Another 
name for it, says our author, was Tri-glypton, which is an attempt to 
render into Gr eck, the meaning of Trilinga or Trai-linga, the three 
Lingas of Manx-p8va, and of which the Tri-sul, or trident is the emblem. 
jai. OHS! (Embassy to Avi, Vol, 2d, p. 258. 
