1895.] M. A. Slein —Topography of the Ptr Pants at Ponte. 385 
analogous phonetic change to Skr. Kramavarta , Kamelanlwt corresponds 
to a Skr. * Kramavartanam hofta A 
The evidence here indicated enables us to recognize with certainty 
in Kamelankot the Kramavarta of Kalhana and thus the earlier position 
of the frontier-station guarding the Plr Pantsal route. As regards the 
name Kdmhuva which this station bore according to iii. 227, I am 
unable to give any information. As the name is not found again in the 
Rajataraqgini or the later Chronicles the assumption seems justified that 
it was forgotten at an early period on account of the transfer of the 
watch-station to Curapura and the consequent employment of the new 
designation Curapuradrarjga. 
The later position of the frontier-post is indicated by a local tradi¬ 
tion still surviving at Hdr a por , which relates that at a spot situated 
about 1|- miles above the village, where rocky spurs projecting from 
the hill sides reduce the level ground of the valley to a narrow defile, 
there stood once an ancient gate. This place which is covered by 
dense fir-forest, bears now the name of Ilahl Darwdza, 1 the Gate of 
God’; but the father of the present Muqaddam for Lambardar), a 
safedr&sh of very advanced age, remembered to have heard in his youth 
the name Prang also. 
Old coins are often found at this spot, and in the under-growth 
the remains of ruined walls can still be traced. A monument of ancient 
art is seen about 330 yards higher up the valley, where a large rock, 
lying close to the river bank, shows in three richly decorated niches, 
over 4 feet high, well-carved relievo representations of temples of the 
Ka^mlrian style. 
Hor a por which until the recent construction of the Jhelam Valley 
Road saw a considerable amount of trade and is still the seat of a 
customs-station, is traditionally believed to have once extended for 
nearly three miles along the banks of the Rembyara. Until some 15 
years ago all subjects of the Maharaja who wished to leave Kacmir by 
this route, had to show permits and to pay a small poll-tax at the police 
posts which were stationed at Hor a por, Inganari and ‘Allabad Sarai. 
These posts were known in the official Persian by the name of 
1 For the phonetic change of Skr. Krama- > Kagm. Kdm- we have the 
evidence of an exact parallel in the well-known name for the western portion of the 
Kagmir Valley, Kamrdz < Skr. Kramardjya (Rajat.). The length of the vowel in 
Kdm[el is easily accounted for by the assimilation of v to the preceding m (in the 
intermediate form * Kramvart reduced from # Kramavart under the action of the 
stress-accent which falls on the first syllable) and by subsequent ‘ supplementary 
lengthening’; for the latter comp. Kagm. Danotar < Skr. Dhanvantari, Examples 
for Kagm. I being the phonetic derivative of Skr. r + dental are Ivagm. dval[un: 
Skr. dvarta ‘whirlpool,’ mul^mut : Skr . mardita ‘rubbed.’ 
