Historical Geography of Ancient India c6.336

c6.336

Irāvatī.—Patañjali refers to it in his *Mahābhāṣya* (2. 1. 2, p. 53). It is the modern Rāvi, the Greek Hydraotis or Adris or Rhonadis. This river rises in the rock-basin of Bāngahal and drains the southern slopes of the Pir Pañjal and the northern slopes of the Dhaulā Dhar. According to the *Kālikāpurāṇa* (Ch. 24. 140) this river has its origin in the Irā lake. The length of the course of this river in the Himālayas is 130 miles. This river appears first to our view at the south-west corner of Chamba in Kashmir. From Chamba it flows past Lahore, following a south-westerly course, and meets the Chenab or the united flow of the Vitastā and Chandrabhāgā between Ahmadpur and Saraisidhu (Law, *Rivers of India*, p. 13).