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¹ See Dr. Stein’s Translation of the *Rājatarangiṇī*, ch. iv, 248, v, 66 ff.; also his account of the removal of the confluence, vol. ii, pp. 239 ff., 419 ff. The usual identification of Panchanada with the Panjab is untenable; for Dṛḍhabala clearly indicates a locality (*pura*), not a country, as his home. Dr. Cordier, in his *Récentes Découvertes*, identifies it with ‘Panjpur au nord d’Attock, Pañjab’, on the authority, as he has informed me privately (letter of January 13, 1905), of ‘an Indian Nāgri map lithographed in Benares’ and of ‘the Indian Post-Office Guide’. I am afraid he has been misled by his authorities. Dr. Stein, whom I asked to verify on the spot, writes to me (letter of March 1, 1905) that there is no Panjpur in the region of Attock, nor in ‘the latest edition of the Indian Postal Guide’. There is, however, an isolated ridge known as Panjpīr, or ‘Hill of the Five Pīrs’, in the Yusufzai Plain, NNW. of Attock, a Muhammadan place of pilgrimage. This appears to have caused the confusion; but between Panjpīr and Panchanadapur there can obviously be no connexion. See also my article on ‘the Authorship of the Charaka Saṃhitā’ in the *Archiv für die Geschichte der Medizin*, 1907.