The Ancient Geography of India. I. The Buddhist Period, including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang c5.s1.t9: Varusha, or Palodheri.
The Ancient Geography of India. I. The Buddhist Period, including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang c5.s1.t9
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Varusha, or Palodheri.
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Hwen Thsang next visited a town called *Po-lu-sha*, which, I think, may be identified with *Palo-dheri*, or the village of Pali, which is situated on a dheri, or “mound of ruins,” the remains of some early town. To the north-east of the town, at 20 li, or 3⅓ miles, rose the hill of Dantaloka, with a cave, in which Prince Sudâna and his wife had taken refuge. The position of Palodheri, which is the Pelley of General Court, agrees with Hwen Thsang’s distance of about 40 miles from Pushkalavati;* and this identification is supported by the existence of the great cave of Kashmiri-Ghár, in the hill to the east-north-east, and within 3 or 4 miles of Palodheri. Mount Dantalok I take to be the Montes Dædali of Justin,† as in the spoken dialects the nasal of the word danta is assimilated with the following letter, which thus becomes doubled, as in the well-known datton, a “tooth-brush,” or twig used for cleaning the teeth.
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∗ Baber’s ‘Memoirs,’ p. 141.—Wood’s ‘Journey to the Source of the Oxus,’ p. 167.—Macgregor’s ‘Geography of Jalalabad,’ in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xi. 117, and xiii. 867.