16. Darbhanga is in Tirhut, seventy miles NE. of Dinapore. The Kusi
(Kosi or Koosee) river rises in the mountains of Nepal, and falls
into the Ganges after a course of about 325 miles. Nathpur, in the
Puraniya (Purneah) District, is a mart for the trade with Nepal.
17. The customary attitude of a suppliant.
18. A small river which falls into the Nerbudda on the right-hand
side, at Sankal. Its general course is south-west.
19. November, 1835.
20. Described in the _Gazetteer_ (1870) as 'a large but decaying
village in the Jabalpur district, situated at the foot of the Bhanrer
hills, twenty-two miles to the north-west of Jabalpur, on the north
side of the Hiran, and on the road to Sagar'.
21. The convenient restriction of the name Vindhya to the hills
north, and of Satpura to the hills south of the Nerbudda is of modern
origin (_Manual of the Geology of India_, 1st ed., Part I, p. iv).
The Satpura range, thus defined, separates the valley of the Nerbudda
from the valleys of the Tapti flowing west, and the Mahanadi flowing
east. The Vindhyan sandstones certainly are a formation of immense
antiquity, perhaps pre-Silurian.
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