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The Geography of India should be very easily divided right into a few particular sections, each one greatly named after the existing spiritual and political personality of the interval which it embraces, as theB rahnanical, theB uddhist and theM uhammadan. The Brahmanical interval may hint the slow extension of the A ryan race over Northern I ndia, from their first profession of the Panjab to the increase of Buddhism, and might include the full of the Prehistoric, or earliest component of their historical past, duiing which era the faith of the Vedas was once the existing trust of the rustic. The Buddhist interval, or historic Geography of I ndia, might include the increase, extension, and decline of theB uddhist religion, from the period of Buddha, to the conquests of Mahmud of Ghazni, in the course of the larger a part of which period Buddhism used to be the dominant faith of the rustic. The Muhammadan interval, or smooth Geography of I ndia, may include the increase and extension of theM uhammadan energy, from the time of Mahmud of Ghazni to the conflict of Plassey, or approximately 750 years, within which time theM usalm ,ns have been the paramount sovereigns of I ndia.
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11. Western India comprised Sindh and Western Rajpuha, with Kachh and Gujarkt, and a portion of the adjoining coast on the lower course of the Narbadii river. 111. Central India comprised the whole of the Gangetic provinces from Thiinesar to the head of the Delta, and from the Himiilaya mountains to tho banks of tho Narbadb. Emtera India comprised Assam and Bengal proper, including the whole of the Delta of the Ganges, together with Sambhalpur, Orissa, and Gtanjam. V . Southern India comprised the whole of the pcninsula from NLik on the west and Ganjam on the east, to Cape KumAri (Comorin) on the- south, including the modern districts of Berh and Telingha, Mahhrbshtra and the Konkan, with the separate states of Haidarabad, Mysore, and Travancore, or very nearly the whole of the peninsula to the south of the N u bad&and Mahhadi rivers.
As a general rule, the Greeks would seem to have designated the various peoples whom they encountered by the names of their principal towns. + Plin. Hist. , vi. 25. Solin. lvii. t ' Travels,' iii. 166. f Cellarius, iii. 22, p. ' 38 THE ANCIENT CiEOOBBPHY OF INDIA. Thus we have Kabura and the Kabolitae, Drepsa and the Drepsiani, Taxila and the Taxili, Kaspeira and the Kaspeiraei, from which I would infer, that there was most probably also a town named Cadrusia, whose inhabitants were called Cadrusi.
Ika in thin PurBna, which has only eight names for the Nine Divisiona. * The queetion of Ptolemy's erroneous longitudee is treated at length in Appendix C, where I have given all the data on which Sir HeRawlineon has founded his correction of three-tenths of the geographer'a distances in easting. , THE ANCIENT OEOGRAPHY O F ISDIA. 9 throw all the places determined by land measurement too far to the east ; and as this error went on increasing the further he advanced, his eastern geography is completely vitiated by it.