JOMANES
JOMANES (
Plin. Nat. 6.17. s. 21), the most important of the affluents of the Ganges, into which it flows near the city of
Allahabad (Pratishthána).
There can be no doubt that Arrian means the same river when he speaks of Iobares (
Ind. 100.8); and Ptolemy expresses nearly the same sound, when lie names the Diamuna (7.1.29).
It is now called the
Jamúna or
Jumnna. The
Jumna rises in the highest part of the
Himálaya, at no great distance from the sources of the
Sutledge and
Ganges, respectively, in the neighbourhood of
Iamunávatári (
Jumnotri), which is probably the most sacred spot of Hindu worship.
It enters the Indian plain country at
Fyzabad, and on its way to join the Ganges it passes the important cities of
Dehli (Indraprastha) and
Agra (Crishmapura), and receives several large tributaries.
These affluents, in order from W. to E., are the Sambus (
Arrian Ind. chap. 4), (probably the
Carmanvati or
Cambal), the Betwa (or Vetravati), and the Cainas (Arrian,
l.c.; Plin. Nat. 6.19. s. 21: now
Cáyana or
Céna).
The last has been already mentioned as one of the tributaries of the Ganges.
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