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ON THE OEIGINAL INHABITANTS 
these are Indian streams : tlie Hydaspes, Granges and 
Indos.^^ 
The Hydaspes is the first river described. Plutaroh 
relates that a certain king Hydaspes had a daughter Chry- 
sippe, whom Aphrodite out of spite caused to fall in love 
with her own father. She was for this offence crucified by 
the order of her father. But, these calamities so upset 
Hydaspes that he threw himself into the river Indos, which 
was henceforward called Hydaspes. 
In ancient times there lived a youth called Indos, who 
had raped Damasalkida, a daughter of the king Oxyalkos, 
while she was celebrating the feast of Bakchos. The king, 
her father, pursued him, and when Indos saw all escape im- 
possible, he plunged into the river Mausohs rather than 
expose himself to the king's vengeance. This river had 
been so called after Mausohs, a son of the Sun, but from 
that time it was named Indos which is a river in India in the 
country of the Ichthyophages or Fish-eaters. 
The story of the Ganges resembles these two.-^ It is as 
follows : — " The Ganges is a river of India, called so for the 
following reason. The nymph Kalauria bore Indos a son of 
See Plutarcli riepl irora/itlv or de Jluminihus. The t-wenty-five rivers are 
the Hydaspes, Ismenos, Hebros, Ganges, Phasis, Ai-ar, Paktolos, Lykormas, 
Maiandros, Marsyas, Strymon, Sagaris, Skamanda-os, Tanais, Thei-modon, 
Nilos, Eurotas, Inachos, Alpheios, Euphi'ates, Kaikos, Acheloos, Ai-axes, 
Tigris, and Indos. 
See Plutarchi Chaeronensis omnium quae extant operum (Tomi duo), 
Gulielmo Xylandro interprete, Lutetiae Parisioriun, 1624. At the end of the 
second volume is printed : '• VlXovTapxov ir€p< TrflTa.uojc Kai opwv eTrwrnuias Kai 
rwy ev avrois (vpicTKofifvuv. — Plutarchi de Flunorum et Montium noniinilius, 
et de iis quae in illis inveniuntur, interprete Ph Hippo Jacobo Maussaco.''' There 
we read in vol. II, pp. 1151, 1152 ; 
Vayyi)s voranis icTTi rfjj '\vZias, tiV irpostYyoplav Xa^^v 5i' aiViai' Toiair-qv. 
'\v^if tIs Ka\ai;p/a vvfx<pTi iyyevfrjo'ev vihv Ka\\€i TTepl$\firTOVy rh ovoixa rd-)yri>'. 
OuTos Kap-q^apijtras n) /xTjTpl Kar' &yvoiav ffvyiyyh'ero tij Aiowi6o^5<n], S Si ^jefl' 
■Sjfifpai TTopa T7)j rpocpov fxadHi' riji' aKrjSeiav, Sih. Ai!n-7;r ii7r€pj3o\?V' lavrhv Ip^iyfC 
615 TTOTafibv X\iop()r KoAovixfi'ov, 5s aV ainov Vay^nis ^6T&)i'o/u.£«r97). MausSiicus 
trunslatea thia passage as follows : " Ganges fluvius est Indiae, ifev vocatus 
hac de causa : Ex Indo Calauria quaedam virgo genuit filinm pulchritudiiie 
conspicuum nomine Gangem : qui soumo vim>que sepultus cum matre Diopi- 
