CHENAB, next to the Sutlej, is the largest of the five great rivers of the Panjab. It is also called the Trimab. Ptolemy called it Siudabal or Sanda , bilis, but the Greek historians of Alexander called it Akesines. Its source is in the high land of Tibet, about lat. 32° 50' N., and long. 77° 40' E., near the Bara Lacha pass. The Chandra and • Bhaga rise on opposite sides of the Bara Lacha pass, which is in lat. 32° 45' N., and long. 77° 22' E. ; and as their junction form the Chenab, they ; give also its Sanskrit name, Chandrabhaga, or , moon garden. It runs north-west to Murumur • dwun ; south-westtoits confluence with theJhel um, thence south-west to the Ghara, or continuation of , the Sutlej. Its length to the Ghara is 765 miles. ) It descends at the average rate of 40 feet per ) mile for the first 200 miles. Its estimated eleva tion at Kishtawar is 5000 feet. It receives the Suruj Bhagu, Murumurdwun, and the Dhark, all short streams. It becomes navigable for timber . rafts at Aknur. Above Darwas it is a rapid river, ? running through a deep rocky channel.
The portion of it which passes through the - territories of the maharaja of Kashmir is about .1 200 miles long. From the junction of the Chandra and Bhaga at Tandi, in British Lahul, to Aknur, L. where the river debouches upon the plains,
length is about 300 miles. The fall, accordino. to - General A. Cunningham, is 34 feet per mile from Tandi to Kishtawar, and 26 feet per mile from Kishtawar to Aknur. The flora of the upper .. valley agrees in most respects with that of Kuna- - war ; lower down there is an approach to the - vegetation of the Outer Himalaya. In the basins 3, of the Chenab and Jhelum are four distinct races, , but all of Aryan origin, viz. the Dogra, Pahari, e Kashmiri, and Chaibati. The races on its valley 1 call it Sanda Bhaga, Jenab, Ghenab, Jenal, and e Ghenal.—Powell, 532 ; Thomson's Tr. 348 ; Cleg 7 horn, Rep. 134, 153 ; Panjab, i. 10, 11.
s CHENA CULTIVATION. ANGLO-SINGII. In ? Ceylon, Chena means scrub laud, patches of forest, burned, cleared, and cultivated for two or three a years, and then abandoned and allowed to become forest lands again. This destructive form of culti - vation is known as Kumasi on the western coast of India.—Tennent ; Dr. Cleghorn. See Kumari.
t CHENA-GHANRI. BENG. Xyris Indies.
s CHENERROON, a large tree of Akyab used in s house-building ; plentiful in the Ramree and - Sandoway districts.—Cal. Cat. Ex. 1862.