d in majori aestu, humi
jacentes resupini, umbra se pedum protegant."

These epithets are, as Professor Wilson remarks, "exaggerations of
national ugliness, or allusions to peculiar customs, which were not
literally intended, although they may have furnished the Mandevilles
of ancient and modern times."

_Vishnu Purana_, Vol. II. p. 162.

1052 The Kirrhadae of Arrian: a general name for savage tribes living in
woods and mountains.

1053 Said by the commentator to be half tigers half men.

1054 The kingdom seems to have corresponded with the greater part of
Berar and Khandesh.

1055 The Bengal recension has Kishikas, and places them both in the south
and the north.

1056 The people of Mysore.

1057 "There are two Matsyas, one of which, according to the Yantra
Samraj, is identifiable with Jeypoor. In the Digvijaya of Nakula he
subdues the Matsyas further to the west, or Gujerat." WILSON'S
_Vishnu Purana_, Vol. II. 158. Dr. Hall observes: "In the
_Mahabharata Sabha-parwan_, 1105 and 1108, notice is taken of the
king of Matsya and of the Aparamatsyas; and, at 1082, the Matsyas
figure as an eastern people. They are placed among the nations of
the south in the _Ramayana Kishkindha-kanda_, XLI., II, while the
Bengal recension, _Kishkindha-kanda_, XLIV., 12, locates them in the
north."

1058 The Kalingas were the people of the upper part of the Coromandel
Coast, well known, in the traditions of the Eastern Archipelago, as
Kling. Ptolemy has a city in that part, called Caliga; and Pliny
Calingae proximi mari. WILSON'S _Vishnu Purana_, Vol. II. 156, Note.

1059 The Kausikas do not appear to be identifiable.

1060 The Andhras probably occupied the modern Telingana.

1061 The Pundras have already been mentioned in Canto XL.

1062 The inhabitants of the lower part of the Coromandel Coast; so
called, after them, Cholamandala.

1063 A people in the Deccan.

1064 The Keralas were the people of Malabar proper.

1065 A generic term for persons speaking any language but Sanskrit and
not conforming to the usual Hindu institutions.

1066 "Pulinda is applied to any wild or barbarous tribe. Those here named
are some of the people of the deserts along the Indus; but Pulindas
are met with in many other positions, especially in the mountains
and forests acr