- E.
10. Punjab, Which Signifies The Five Waters, Because It Is Seated
Among Five Rivers, All Tributaries To The Indus, Which, Somewhat To The
South Of Lahore, Form Only One River.
This is a great kingdom, and
extremely rich and fertile.
Lahore, the chief city, is well built, very
large, populous, and rich, being the chief mart of trade in all India.
11. Chishmeere, Kyshmir, Cachmir, or Cashmere, its chief city being
Siranakar. The river Phat passes through this country, and, after
creeping about many islands, falls into the Indus. - The rivers of
Cashmere, here called the Phat, are the Chota-sing, or Jellum, in the N.
and the Jellium, or Colhumah, in the S. which unite in the W. to form
the Jhylum or Babut, the Phat or Bhat of Terry and Purchas, and the
Hydaspes of the ancients, one of the five rivers of the Indus. The
present capital of Cashmere is likewise named Cashmere; but has in its
close neighbourhood a town or fortress called Sheergur, the Siranakar of
Terry. - E.
12. Banchish, with its chief city named Bishur. It lies east southerly
from Cashmere, from which it is divided by the river Indus. - No such
province or city is to be found in the modern geography of Hindoostan,
neither any names in the indicated direction that have any resemblance
to these. In the map of the Mogul empire in the Pilgrims, appended to
the journal of Sir Thomas Roe, Banchish and Bishar are placed on a river
named the Kaul, being the fourth of the Punjab or five rivers,
counting from the west, and therefore probably the Ravey, or Hydraotes
of the ancients.
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