The Ancient Geography of India. I. The Buddhist Period, including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang c5.s4.t9.9

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All of these mounds are on the western bank of the *Bágh-bachha* river, and at a mean distance of about 25 miles to the westward of Lahor. The whole of the villages just mentioned will be found in the district map of Lahor, but the mounds themselves are shown only in the large map of the *Sarakpur* Parganah. I have already remarked that the name of the *Bágh-bachha* river is most probably connected with the legend of the "Seven hungry Tiger Cubs" (*Bágh-bachhas*), whose names are preserved in those of the seven mounds above noted. The same story is told here that is so common in the Sindh Sâgar Doâb. *Râsâlu*, the Raja of Syâlkot, plays at *Chopar* with *Sir-kap* for a human head, and having won it accepts his daughter *Kokilá* instead of the stake. The people have the most undoubting faith in the truth of this legend, and they quoted, with evident satisfaction, the following couplet in support of their belief:—