erly and revolutionary: in Judaea
theocracy was ancient and consecrated by tradition, and therefore the
innovation which would substitute a king was represented as full of
dangers." GORRESIO.

Page 176. Salmali.

According to the Bengal recension Salmali appears to have been another
name of the Vipasa. Salmali may be an epithet signifying rich in Bombax
heptaphyllon. The commentator makes another river out of the word.

Page 178. Bharat's Return.

"Two routes from Ayodhya to Rajagriha or Girivraja are described. That
taken by the envoys appears to have been the shorter one, and we are not
told why Bharat returned by a different road. The capital of the Kekayas
lay to the west of the Vipasa. Between it and the Satadru stretched the
country of the Bahikas. Upon the remaining portion of the road the two
recensions differ. According to that of Bengal there follow towards the
east the river Indamati, then the town Ajakala belonging to the Bodhi,
then Bhulinga, then the river Saradanda. According to the other instead of
the first river comes the Ikshumati {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} instead of the first town Abhikala,
instead of the second Kulinga, then the second river. According to the
direction of the route both the above-mentioned rivers must be tributaries
of the Satadru.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} The road then crossed the Yamuna (Jumna), led beyond that
river through the country of the Panchalas, and reached the Ganges at
Hastinapura, where the ferry was. Thence it led over the Ramaganga and its
eastern tributaries, then over the Gomati, and then in a southern
direction along the Malini, beyond which it reached Ayodhya. In Bharat's
journey the following rivers are passed from west to east: _Kutikoshtika_,
_Uttanika_, _Kutika_, _Kapivati_, _Gomati_ according to Schlegel, and
_Hiranyavati_, _Uttarika_, _Kutila_, _Kapivati_, _Gomati_ according to
Gorresio. As these rivers are to be looked for on the east of the Ganges,
the first must be the modern _Koh_, a small affluent of the Ramaganga,
over which the highway cannot have gone as it bends too far to the north.
The Uttanika or Uttarika must be the Ramaganga, the Kutika or Kutila its
eastern tributary, Kosila, the Kapivati the next tributary which on the
maps has different names, _Gurra_ or above Kailas, lower down _Bhaigu_.
The Gomati (Goomtee) retains its old name. The Malini, mentioned only in
the envoys' journey, must have been the western tributary of the Sa