1 (return) [ They were erected about the midway between Lahor and Delhi. The conquests of Alexander in Hindostan were confined to the Punjab, a country watered by the five great streams of the Indus. * Note: The Hyphasis is one of the five rivers which join the Indus or the Sind, after having traversed the province of the Pendj-ab—a name which in Persian, signifies _five rivers_. * * * G. The five rivers were, 1. The Hydaspes, now the Chelum, Behni, or Bedusta, (_Sanscrit_, Vitashà, Arrow-swift.) 2. The Acesines, the Chenab, (_Sanscrit_, Chandrabhágâ, Moon-gift.) 3. Hydraotes, the Ravey, or Iraoty, (_Sanscrit_, Irâvatî.) 4. Hyphasis, the Beyah, (_Sanscrit_, Vepâsà, Fetterless.) 5. The Satadru, (_Sanscrit_, the Hundred Streamed,) the Sutledj, known first to the Greeks in the time of Ptolemy. Rennel. Vincent, Commerce of Anc. book 2. Lassen, Pentapotam. Ind. Wilson’s Sanscrit Dict., and the valuable memoir of Lieut. Burnes, Journal of London Geogr. Society, vol. iii. p. 2, with the travels of that very able writer. Compare Gibbon’s own note, c. lxv. note 25.—M substit. for G.] 2 (return) [ See M. de Guignes, Histoire des Huns, l. xv. xvi. and xvii.] I. The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.