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J6mo (Ch6mo, Chama) not unfrequently occurs also in North-Eastern Tibet in names of mountains, as Chomogankar (jo-mogangs dkar), the mistress's white ice; or as a specimen of minor elevation, Chomonagri Go-mo nags ri), the mistress's woody mountain. These two examples were kindly communicated to me as analoga by Mr. A. Schiefner of St. Petersburg.

Champapur, in Bengal, Lat. 24°, Long. 89°    ,l~,~ Hind.

"Champa-town." Champa, name of a tree, Michelia champaka.

Chand, in Berar, Lat. 21°; Long. 79°    Hind.

"Moon."

Anal. Chandar, in Bengal, Lat. 25°, Long. 87°; chandra being moon in Sanskrit. Chandarghat, in Nepal, Lat. 28°, Long. 81°; Chandragiri, in the Karnatik, Lat. 13°, Long. 79°. Also a pass on the road from the plains to Kathmandu, Lat. 27°, Long. 85°, has this name.

Chandarkiitidurg, in Maissûr, Lat. 14°, Long. 75° .... cS»   S,S)ca* Hind.

"The castle of the moon's horn." Koti, the curved end, the horn when combined with moon, may be considered here as an emphatical epithet referring to the form of the rock on which the castle is built.

On the maps of the Madras Presidency it is generally spelt Chundergootydroog.

Anal. Chandar-koti- patnam, in Maissur, Lat. 16°, Long. 78°.

Chandarniigar, in Bengal, Lat. 22°, Long. 88°    ,.   Hind.

"Moon-town." The French custom of putting the accent on the last syllable causes the word to be generally pronounced by the European population as Chandernagxr; but neither the accentuation of the natives nor the indigenous mode of writing it coincide with this pronunciation.

Anal. Chandar-pur, in Orissa, Lat. 21°, Long. 83°; Chand-nagar, in Hindostan, Lat. 28°, Long: 78°, in Orissa, Lat. 21°, Long. 83°; Chand-pur, in Malva, Lat. 23°, Long. 78°, in Bengal, Lat. 23°, Long. 90°, in Hindostan, Lat. 29°, Long. 78°

Ch andrabhâ,ga, a river in the Western Himalaya; see Suryabhaga 1(S1.44)0.1,? Hind.

"The portion of the moon." Also a mountain range in LahOl and Kishtvar bears this name.

C h a n d u n â n g i,a mountain in Sikkim, Lat. 27°, Long. 88°.

Zns5'Œ,D F„,F';,ZCJ btsan-'bru-nang-rgyas.

"The powerful vexed (subdued) by the esoteric symbol." Btsan, strong, secure, firm, powerful; 'bru, a grain, a corn, or to pick, to dig, to vex; nang, intrinsic, or esoteric, orthodox, a Buddhist, the morning; rgya, a seal, token, symbol; "s" is the sign of the instrumental case.

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