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from place to place ; these in especial they look upon as 

 constituting their flocks and herds ; by their aid they wage 

 their wars, and fight in defence of their territories. Strength, 

 age, and size, are the points usually considered in making 

 jhoice of these animals. 



In the Ganges there is an island of very considerable 

 5ize, inhabited by a single nation; it is called Modoga- 

 linga.^^ Beyond the Ganges are situate the Modubse, the 

 SColindae, the Uberae, with a magnificent city of t.lie same 

 lame, the Modresi, the Preti, the Caloge, the Sasuri, the 

 Passalce, the Colobse, the Orumcolse, the Abali, and the Tha- 

 utae. The king of the last-named people has fifty thousand 

 bot-soldiers, four thousand horse, and four hundred armed 

 'lephants. Yv"e next come to a still more powerful nation, 

 he Andarse,^^ who dwell in numerous \illages, as well as thirty 

 ities fortified with walls and towers. They furnish for 

 heir king one hundred thousand foot, two thousand horse, 

 md a thousand elephants. The country of the Dardse'^^ is 

 he most productive of gold, that of the Setae of silver. 



But more famous and more powerful than any nation, not 



•nly in these regions, but throughout almost the whole of 



^ndia, are the Prasii, who dwell in a city of vast extent and 



'f remarkable opulence, called Palibothra •,^^ from which cir- 



umstance some writers have given to the people themselves 



he name of Palibothri, and, indeed, to the whole tract of 



ountry between the Ganges and the Indus. These people 



:eep on daily pay in their king's service an army, consisting of 



: ix hundred thousand foot, thirty thousand horse, and nine 



' housand elephants, from v\^hich we may easily form a con- 



' Lecture as to the vast extent of their resources. Behind these 



5^ Inhabited, probably, by a branch of the Cahngte previously mentioned. 



5^ Ansart suggests that this may be the modern kingdom of Pegu. He 

 links also that the preceding kingdom may be that now called Arracan. 



^^ These may possibly be the Daradroe of Ptolemy, but it seems impos- 

 ble to guess tlieir locality. 



^^ Probably the present Patna. D'Anville, however, identifies it with 

 llababad, while Welford and Wahl are inclined to think it the same as 

 '.adjeurah, formerly called Balipoutra or Bengala. The Prasii are pro- 

 ably the race of people mentioned in the ancient Sanscrit books under the 

 ame of the " Pragi " or the Eastern Empire, wliile the Gangarides are men- 

 oned in the same works under the name of " Gandaressa" or Kingtloni of 

 le Ganges. 



