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"The city surrounded by rivers;" the modern Benares, lat. 25d 23s N., lon. 83d 5s E. "The rishi," says Eitel, "is a man whose bodily frame has undergone a certain transformation by dint of meditation and ascetism, so that he is, for an indefinite period, exempt from decrepitude, age, and death.

Leach gives a list of wages paid in 1827 and in 1843 for various goods, from which it appears that articles paid in 1827 at the rates of 4d., 2.25d., 2.75d., and 1d. per yard, were paid in 1843 at the rate of 1.5d., 1d., .75d., and 0.375d. per yard, cutters' wages.

Nov 27 Pd Mr B a Subscription for missionaries 15 D. 1798 Feby 26 pd 5D in part of 20D Subscription for a hot-press bible June 25 Gave order on J Barnes for 25D towards fitting up a chapel. Sept 23 pd Contribution at a Sermon 7.20 April 7 Gave order on J Barnes for 50D charity in favor of the Revd Mr Parkinson towards a Baptist meeting house.

The king employs men to watch and protect it, and requires three out of every ten such pearls, which the collectors find. Probably the modern Champanagur, three miles west of Baglipoor, lat. 25d 14s N., lon. 56d 55s E. Then the principal emporium for the trade with Ceylon and China; the modern Tam-look, lat. 22d 17s N., lon. 88d 2s E.; near the mouth of the Hoogly.

The modern Patna, lat. 25d 28s N., lon. 85d 15s E. The Sanskrit name means "The city of flowers." It is the Indian Florence. See chap. x, note 3. Asoka transferred his court from Rajagriha to Pataliputtra, and there, in the eighteenth year of his reign, he convoked the third Great Synod, according, at least, to southern Buddhism.