[783] This river, which is now called the Purally, is about 120 miles west of the mouth of the Indus. It is called Arabis by Arrian (Indica, 21); and Arbis by Strabo (xv. 2).
[784] These were a people of Gadrosia, inhabiting a coast district nearly 200 miles long in the present Beloochistan. Cf. Arrian (Indica, 22 and 25); Pliny, vi. 23.
[785] The Arabitians dwelt between the Indus and the Arabius; the Oritians were west of the latter river.
[786] Rhambacia was probably at or near Haur.
[787] According to Diodorus (xvii. 104) the city was called Alexandria.
[788] Ora was the name of the district inhabited by the Oritians.
[789] Cf. Pliny (Nat. Hist. xii. 33-35).
[790] Cf. Strabo (xv. 2); Pliny (Nat. Hist. xii. 26).
[791] Probably the snow-flake.
[792] This is the well-known catechu, obtained chiefly from the Acacia Catechu. The liquid gum is called kuth or cutch in India.