ABSTRACT
The enumeration of the seven Cosis by the Itinerists is doubtless the accredited one, and what I have myself often heard at Kathmandu. Nevertheless, names are not always applied in strict correspondence with things in geography. 'Witness the neglected Jahnavi, the true and transnivean source of the Ganges! Now, if we are to estimate the seven chief feeders of the Great Cosi according to the length of their courses, or their effect on the physiognomy of the country, the enumerations ought seemingly to be as follows;-
1St. The Milamchi 2d. The Bh6tia C6si 3d. The Tamba Cosi 4th. The LikhU C6si Local series beginning from the IN est 5th. The Dud C6si 6th. The Arun 7th. The Tam6r
This list omits the Barun of the usual enumeration, and substitutes the Bhatia Cosi for the Sun Cosi, and not without ,N epalese authority for both changes; for it is generally allowed that the Harun hardly belongs to the sub-Himalayas, and that Sun Cosi is rather the name of the general receptacle of the Oosis till joined by the Arun, than that of a separate Cosio The following remarks on each river will make this apparent :-
1St. The Milamchi rises above the Bhatia village of that name, and at or near to the eastern base of Gosain-than, the great snowy peak overlooking the valley of Nepal. From the snows, the Milamchi has a south-eastern course of probably sixty miles to DallaIgMt. It is joined from the west by the Sindhu, the Tand, and the CMk; and from the north and north-east by the Indravati, the Balamphi, and the JMri. The three former are petty streams, but the three latter are considerable ones, one of them rising in the snowy region, and another having two subordinate affiuents. The Indravati comes from the Hemachal at Panchpokri, and flows nearly due south into the
THE SEVEN COSIS OF NEPAL. 207 Milamchi below Helmu. The Balamphi and Jhari have only sub-Himalayan sources, situated south-east of Panchpokri, but they have longer independent courses than the Indravati before they unite, after which they presently join the Milamchi not far above the confluence of the Ohak. The subordinate feeder::; of the Balamphi, above adverted to, are the Boksia and Lipsia. They have short parallel courses W.S.W. into their parent stream. Thus the Milamchi is a notable river, and it is the more so as forming very distinctly the western boundary of the bas in of the great Oosi, of which the equally distinct eastern limit is the Tamor.
