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 149 deserts extending for 250 miles. These being pass- ed, we come to the O r g a n a g se, A b a o r t se, Sibarae, Suertse^ and after these to deserts as extensive as the former. Then come the Sarophages, Sorgee, Baraomatae, and the Umbritt8e,§ who consist of twelve tribes, each possessing two cities, and the A s e n i, who possess three cities. || Their capital is Buce- p h a 1 a, built where Alexander's famous horse declivity of the Arftvali mountains, where Ptolemy also places his Bolingse. The Madrabhujingha of the Faig'&h (see VisJvmi Pur, p. 187) were probably a branch of this tribe. The Gallitalutae are identified by the same author with the Gahalata or Grehlots ; the Dimuri with the Dumras, who, though belonging to the Gangetic valley, originally came from that of the Indus ; the Megan with the Mokars of the Bi^put chronicles, whose name is perhaps preserv- ed in that of the Mehars of the lower part of Sindh, and also in that of the Megh&ris of Eastern • Baluchistan ; the Messe with the Mazaiis, a considerable tribe between Shikfirpiir and Mitank6t on the western bank of the Indus ; and the TJri with the Hauras of the same locality — the Hurairas who figure in the B&jput lists of thirty-six royal tribes. The Sulalas of the same tribes perhaps represent the Sileni, whom Pliny mentions along with the Uri. § w. 11. Paragomat89, UmbitrsB. — BaraomataB Gumbri- teeqae. if The tribes here enumerated must have occupied a tract of country lying above the confluence of the Indus with the stream of the combined rivers of the Panjfib. They are obscure-, and their names cannot with any certainty be identified if we except that of the Sibarse, who are un- doubtedly the Sauvlras of the MahAhhdrata, and who, as their name isalmostinvariably combined with' that of the Indus, must have dwelt not far from its banks. The Afghan tribe of the Afridis may perhaps represent the Abaortsa, and the Sarabh&n or Sarvanis, of the same stock, the Sarophages. The Umbrittee and the Aseni take us to the east of me river. The former are perhaps identical with the Ambastee of the historians of Alexander, and the Ambasthas of Sanskrit v^ritings, who dwelt in the neigh- bourhood of the lower Akesin^s.