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The Imperial Gazetteer of India Bomjur to Central India

1908

The confluence of the South Koel and the Sankh which marks the point of origin of the Brahman' is the prettiest spot in Gangpur State and is said by local' tradition to be the scene of the amour of the cage Parasara with the fisherman's daughter Matsya Gandhi who became the mother of Vyasa the reputed compiler of the Vedas and the Mahabharata. [...] The source of the TAn-po is in 31° 3o' N. and 82° E. near the upper waters of the Indus and the Sutlej And a little to the east of the Manasarowar 'Ake. [...] 7-13.] BrAhui Range Central.—A mountain range in Baluchistan occpying the northern part of the Jhalawan and the whole of the Sarawan country in the Kalat State and.part of the Administered areas and forming the upper portion of the great system to which Pottinger gave the name 8f the Brahooick Mountains. [...] Between the Mala river and Quetta the strike is north and south but a few mils north of the latter place the ranges turn sharply to the east and south-east to meet the Sulaininn Mountains The total length of the arc thus formed is about 225 miles and the brodth about ?o miles. [...] Of the salt-water creeks sbackwaters the three most important are the Mota breaking off from the Dhadhar river about 6 miles west og the town of Amod ; the Bhukhi running inland from the right bank of the Narbada about 15 miles west of the city of Broach ; and the Wand an inlet from the shore of the Gulf of Cambay about 8 miles north of the mouth of the Kim river.
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