APPENDIX B. 
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Thence [from Rotas or Ruytas], to the ferry over the Jailam, or Behai , and Alexandria- 
Bucephalos, near which is a famous peak, called the mountain of the elephant, by Plutarch 
( De ftum.). Its present name is Bal, Bit, or Pit , which, in Persian, signify an elephant. It is 
famous, all over the western parts of India, for its holiness, and its being the abode of numerous 
penitents; the chief of whom, as well as the deity of the place, is called Bae-Natii or Bie-NIth. 
It is generally called Bae-NTth-Thileh, or the mountain of the Lord Bae; another name for it 
is J oghion-di-tibbi , or the tower of the Joghis. 
[The reference to Monserrate is doubtful. Monserrate is not mentioned. He speaks of 
“ Balnatque thile ” at fob 64a. 3 of our MS , and the anonymous commentator wrote in the 
margin: “Balnatka Tile. Thilah [Thileh ? — grass mum ?].” The similarity of orthography be- 
tween the anonymous commentator i nMong. Legat. Comm, and Wilford maybe a mere coincidence. 
I may mention here that Wilford was in correspondence with the College of Fort William. On 
July 15th, 1805, the Council of Fort William ordered “that the thanks of the College be com- 
municated to Capt. Francis Wilford for the valuable manuscripts in the Shanscrit language pre- 
sented by him to the College of Fort Wiliam.” Cf. Asiatic Annual Register for 1806, London, 
1809, sub Bengal Occurrences, p. 27. Did Wilford, after all, present Monserrate’s Mongol. Legal. 
Commentarius to Fort William College about this time ? ] 
5. Asiatick Researches , IX (1807), pp. 57-58. Art.: An Essay on the Sacred Isles of the West, 
with other Essays connected with that work. 
Father Monserrat, who accompanied the Emperor Acbar, in his expedition to Cabul, says 
that that Emperor paid the greatest attention to the measurements of the roads, during his 
march; and that, instead of a common rope, he substituted Bamboos, joined together by iron 
links. He then says, that there were twenty six and one-fourth, of these Cos. to [ 58 ] one degree : 
each Cos consisted, of coarse, of 13911. 77 feet or 4637. 26 yards. 1 
6. Asiatick Researches , IX (1807), pp. 211-215. Art.: Vicramaditya and Salivahana. 
. . . .This account of Saeivahana’s Dynasty at Dilli, and at so late a period, however strange, 
is not entirely groundless. TieffenthalER, in his account of Subah Dilli, mentions two kings of 
that name, on [212] the authority of some Persian writers, whom he does not name. I saw the 
good old man, at Lucknow, in the year 1784 He was a man of austere manners, and incapable 
of deceit. His list of the kings of the Tomdra and Chochan tribes at Dilli , has certainly much 
affinity with those in the Ayin-Acberi (vol. 2, p. 62) : and the Kholassey ul-T awdric and 
Ferishta’s account of the Subhas of India, are most likely the sources from which the good 
father draw his information; but as these tracts are not at present within my reach, I cannot 
ascertain this point. 
The Bhats, or Bhatties, who live between Dilli and the Panjdb, insist that they are 
descended from a certain king, called SIlivahana, who had three sons, Bhat, Maya, or Move, 
and Thaimaz, or Thamaz. Moye settled at Pattydleh, and either was a Thdnovi or Thawoni , 
or had a son thus called. When Amir Timur invaded India, he found, at Toglocpoor, to the 
N.-W. of Dilli, a tribe called Soloun or Salwan, who were Thanovis or Manicheans ; and these he 
ordered to be massacred, and their town to be burned (DeguiGnes, History of the Huns, vol. 5, 
1 Cf. Along. Legat. Comm., fol. 45a. 1 on the “ decempeda.” There is no allusion there to bamboos joined by in u 
links. 
