ee 
' Gnrocrapuy'or INpDraA, bie 
‘Itis by:nd means an uncommon name in India, as well as Saravati,: or 
abounding with reeds. It has aiso the name of the Rama-ganga, to the 
eastward of the Ganges. 
"Tue only branch of that name; which can attract our notice, is to the 
westward; springs out at Hardwar, and rejoins the Ganges at Banghatt.- 
This, part is. well delineated in. the general map of India. It springs out 
again, according to the late surveys, at Succur-taul, passes to the eastward 
of the ruins of Hastind-pur, and rejoins the Ganges at Gur-muctes war. 
This. Ban or Saraban river was formerly the bed of the Ganges, and the 
present bed to the eastward was also once the Baw or Saraban. river, 
Tus Proremy mistook: for the Rama-ganga, called. also the Ban, 
Saraban and Sardvati river. For the four towns, which he places on its 
banks, are either on the old,. or on the new bed of the Ganges. Storit; 
and Sapotus.are Hasinaura, or Hastind-nagara on the eid bed; aad. 
Sabal, now in ruins, on the-eastern.bank of the new bed, and is commonly 
called Sabulewr. Hastind-pur is twenty-four miles S. W. of Déré-nagar; 
and eleven to the west of the present Ganges: and it is called Hastnawer, 
in the Ayin Acberi.* Korta is the, Awartta, we mentioned before, or Har- 
dwér. tis called Arate in the Peuting. tables, and by the Anonymous | 
of Ravenna. | 
In the immense plains of Anu-Gangam or the Gangetic pravinces, 
there are two declivities or descents. One towards the east, and thé other 
* Vor. 3d. p. 57. 
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