Kupele

Straights so called in India, through which the Ganges disembogues itself into Hindu stan. They are distant from Delhi about 30 leagues, in the longitude of 96, and in the latitude of 30.2. These straights are believed by the Indians, who look very little abroad, to be the sources of the Ganges: and a rock 15 miles distant from them, bearing some resemblance to the head of a cow, has joined in the same part of the nations, two very important objects of their religion: the grand image of the animal which they almost venerate as a divinity, and the first appearance of that immense body of holy water which washes away all their sins. It was at these straights that the Indians made some shew of resistance, when the famous Tamer lane invaded India. The field of this victory is the most distant term of that emperor’s conquest in India and on the globe. See Di ertation on the establishments made by Mahomedan conquerors in Hindu stan, in Orme’s History of the Carnatic, page 14, and 15.