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in Buddhist legend under the second name. The navigable Prinas or Pinnas is perhaps Puny&, now Piinptin, one of the same cluster. Sonus instead of being a duplicate of Erannoboas, may be a branch of the Gaya river, still called Sona. Andomatis flowing from the Madiandini, i.e., '* Meridionales" is perhaps the Andhela, one of the names of the Chandan river of BhagalpAr. Kainas, navigable, is not likely to be the Ken of Bundelkhand, the old form of which is Karziavati, but more probably the Kay&na or Koh&na of GorakhpAr. It is now a tributary of the lower Gh&gr&, but the lower course of that river has shifted much, and the map suggests that both the Rapti (Solomatis of Lassen) and Kayana may have entered the Ganges directly." For the identification of the other rivers in the list see my article in the Indian Antiquary, vol. V, p. 331.

Diamouna ; — In this it is easy to recognize the Yamun&, the river which after passing Dehli, Mathura, Agra, and other places, joins the Ganges, of which it is the largest affluent at Allahabad. It rises from hot springs amid Himalayan snows, not far westward from the sources of the Ganges. Arrian singularly enough has omitted it from his list of the Ganges affluents, but it is no doubt the river which he subsequently mentions as the J o b a r e s and which flows, he says, through the country of the Sourasenoi, an Indian tribe possessing two large cities, Methora and Kleisobara (Krishnapura ?) Pliny (lib. yi, c. xix) calls it the Jomanes, and states that it flows into the Ganges through the Palibothri, between the towns of Methora and Chrysobara (Krishnapura ?) The