oss Central India, the haunts of the Bheels and
Gonds. So Ptolemy places the Pulindas along the banks of the
Narmada, to the frontiers of Larice, the Lata or Lar of the
Hindus,--Khandesh and part of Gujerat." WILSON'S _Vishnu Purana_,
Vol. II. 159, Note.
Dr. Hall observes that "in the Bengal recension of the _Ramayana_
the Pulindas appear both in the south and in the north. The real
_Ramayana_ K.-k., XLIII., speaks of the northern Pulindas."
1067 The Surasenas were the inhabitants of Mathura, the Suraseni of
Arrian.
1068 These the Mardi of the Greeks and the two preceding tribes appear to
have dwelt in the north-west of Hindustan.
1069 The Kambojas are said to be the people of Arachosia. They are always
mentioned with the north-western tribes.
1070 "The term Yavanas, although, in later times, applied to the
Mohammedans, designated formerly the Greeks.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} The Greeks were known
throughout Western Asia by the term Yavan, or Ion. That the
Macedonian or Bactrian Greeks were most usually intended is not only
probable from their position and relations with India, but from
their being usually named in concurrence with the north-western
tribes, Kambojas, Daradas, Paradas, Bahlikas, Sakas &c., in the
Ramayana. Mahabharata, Puranas, Manu, and in various poems and
plays." WILSON'S _Vishnu Purana_ Vol. II. p. 181, Note.
1071 These people, the Sakai and Sacae of classical writers, the
Indo-Scythians of Ptolemy, extended, about the commencement of our
era, along the west of India, from the Hindu Kosh to the mouths of
the Indus.
1072 The corresponding passage in the Bengal recension has instead of
Varadas Daradas the Dards or inhabitants of the modern Dardistan
along the course of the Indus, above the Himalayas, just before it
descends to India.
1073 From the word yonder it would appear that the prayer is to be
repeated at the rising of the Sun.
1074 The creator of the world and the first of the Hindu triad.
1075 He who pervades all beings; or the second of the Hindu triad who
preserves the world.
1076 The bestower of blessings; the third of the Hindu triad and the
destroyer of the world.
1077 A name of the War-God; also one who urges the senses to action.
1078 The lord of creatures; or the God of sacrifices.
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