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 September, 1875.] BOOK NOTICES. 283 correspond to tin* modern Par bandar and Navibandar respectively,— neither of them known to bo old places : G u m 1 i or Bhumli in the Bardahills.or perhaps Bhadrarat i,now B h a d r e a v a r, on tho coast of Kachh, might be snggeated for Bardaxima, and Chonvad or Yi rival for Horata. or Syra$tm— a and eh b the local pronnnciation of Soratha and other parts of Gujarat being often changed into h, Tk which CoL Yale marks with doubt about Wadh- wan, could scarcely have been there, though die place is old : but possibly it might be meant for Satrunjaya or Surasaila (the rock of the gods) — though that never was a city, but is visible from the mouth of the river as a large flat-topped bill covered with sacred edifices. We cannot here enter further into details of the new identifications : several of those in the south of India are due to Dr. A. C Burnell and the Rer. Dr. Caldwell, With this map before them and Colonel Yule's notes on it, we incline to think that some of oar readers might be able, from local knowledge, to help to the settlement of several of the doubtful and disputed sites. For the use of Indian students it is very desirable that the map, with the letterpress and index belonging to it, should be published separately, as few can afford to purchase the magnjfioaat six -guinea Atlas in which it. appes Note. — Rivers tn the Konkan have generally two name* — the one that of the uppermost port on their estuary, used by the maritime population ; the other tlmt stream itself, used by dwellers inland: e.g. the K&mvfidl mentioned above, is always spoken of, Quoad navigation, as the Blmanclicht lchadt, or estuary (lit. brackish part) of Bhivandi; ami kiftj Kondulika, whose month forms the harboar of Cliau! (Marajht Cheiivnl) ia called the Bohc-Ashtamiuh! khadl. Sometimes there is a third name, used chiefly by Brahman* and for purposes of wor*1 TArauii namoof the Kwu or Malsej GhAt river. Tii- in li.'.itious suppliod by the modern geo^nijili 5- of Western India on tho points touched on are vujrae, hut worth recording. Upon the Vaitharna, within two days' innrih ««f the hjghaat salt-water, is the town of Gore, which now a largo place, hut j-till keeps op some trail.- in ri'-e and timber with the ports at tho mouth of the river, and probably had more in ancient days, especially if tho neighbouring hill-f..n .1 K.-j was then in existence, which is possible, but not proveable. The 1 1 not well known by that name at ' Paithan. or any place on tho western part of its course, but generally called the Qi The so-called Th&nn Creek is not properly a creek at all, but a depression, or backwater, r, ,.. head Of Bomltay Harbour U Batscin (JlarAthl Vasal). Hji shallowest point is wh« -ksjnst south of Thftna afford* » foandati 1 1. 1, P. Rai] About two miles until m tho " Kuljitu Donne Loi, p. 333; and Ind. Ant. vol. IV. pp. UI, 92. en .--•!;." at estnarj of th« Ulfis, and ita tributaries, but does ingeits own name ; and, still further on, the Bhivarjdi ami Lafehivli crooks. The land-floods of all these pass oat northwards by Bossein ; the ridge of rock mentioned atuve keeps their water out of Bombay Harbour. It is certain that tho accommodation in all of them fur large vessels has been decreasing for centuries, owing to silt, and to the advance of embanked rice-fields. Opposite Bossein u a ■village called Gl hut the name is probably nitlur modern. The northernmost part, however, of Bom- bay Harbour is at Bhan^Ap ; and the most northern of the ancient exits is at Bandore (probably a Portugueaifica- tion of an old native name). It is also to he remarked that of tbe four great traffic - be North Koakan, the Bhor, Nana, and Malsej Ghats pass over watersheds dividing large tributaries of the Bhima from those of the TJlis in sneh a manner that the careless commercial traveller would hardly notic- one cuds and the other begins ; and tho head-waters of the Vaithnrna ore equally close to an affluent of the Gav tho Thai Gbit, The tendency to connect rivers running different ways is characteristic of ancient, and especially Eastern geography. It is constantly to be remarked in the Hindu legends about soared streams, and may be noticed in the interesting map published by Mr. Rehatsek in vol. I. of the Antiquary (p. 870), which, from internal evidence, I suppose to have been drawn by a native of Oudh or Hindustan who had made the pugrimage to Mecca via Surat. Infon. given by Arab merchants (the successors in "right lino" of some of Ptolemy's authorities) to African geographers is marked by tho same characteristic. My conjecture is that (he Guurisis the conjunct Gudivari and Vaitharna, and the Binda made up of the Bhima and Uhw and their tributa- ries, including the Bhivandi (Musalmflnice flhimd!) erect — W. F. S. Ttra Romantic Lfgfvii oy Sakta Buddha: from the 'jiskrit- By Samuel Beal. Sm. Svo, 3U5 pp. (London : Trubner and Co. t8?5.) In the dedication of this volume tho author 6tate3 that 'when he first discovered in the India Office Library a Chinese copy of the work, he purposed to publish an entire translation of it,- but being unable to carry out this purpose he still desired to publish it in as complete a fan possible. But even hero fresh difficulties arose, nor should he have been able to prodnr, abbreviated translation but for the generous sup- f Mr .1 Fergusson. FJt.S., D.CX.' It is a translation of tho Chines. of the Ahhliiishk, [twP, done into that language by Diiyaiiiikutn. a Baddhlst from Northern India, about tbe end of the sixth century a.d. The colo- phon nt the end runs thus.- — "It may be :. ' By what title Is this book to be called P : to which we reply, the Mahasangbikas call it Tasse (' great '■'.hdtastu) ; the Sarv&stArddas call it an ('great magnificence' t LaKia Vas- r history of Buddha') ; the Dharainguptas t Vassilicf 3 Bouddhiimo, § 170,
 * VaqaiUaft J}ouddAiMH«,§ 111: Burnonf*s Lntvitdtsla
 * f tho Kasyapiyaa call it Fo-vr