210 Major Tod, on an Inscription at Madhucarghar. 



Chitdre, their capitals. But what will excite some surprise, the celebrated 

 Hun is enrolled as a branch of the Prdrnciras. That Europe only was 

 deluged with this race, we knew well was not the case : Cosmos relates the 

 White Huns, or Abtelites, being in India in the fifth century ; and Dr. 

 Wilkins made the world acquainted with tiie fact, that they had invaded 

 Bengal, from the record of Dcb-jHil-c/eb,* " who humbled the pride of the 

 Huns," to use the words of the translator of the inscription engraven on 

 the pillar near BuddalA ]My journey to Guzzerat led me to discover, that 

 they were even yet not extinct : the name still lived ; but it is " vox ct 

 pra;tcrca niiiil," confined to a few miserable families near the estuary ofthe 

 Alahi river, poor and degiaded, and without any recollection of their 

 origin. Various authorities acquaint us with the fact of Indo-Scythian 

 tribes overriuining all tliesc tracts ; and their descendants are still there. 

 The Kdthi (the Cathei), still brave and independent, as when they opposed 

 Alexander, and scarcely reconciled to the paternal government, which has 

 made them turn their javelins t into plough-shares. They can be traced 

 from the Panclia-nada, the Sangama, or junction, of the " Five streams " 

 of the Indus, to their present abodes. 



The Prdmdra genealogist enlists the Kdthi into his catalogue ; or rather, 

 ambition has made these Scythians (the Sun still the great object of adora- 

 tion) wish to get a niche in the Hindu pantheon ; and which appears to 

 have been a matter of no great difficulty, from the suspicious characters we 

 find there. 



Ptolemy gives a " Regnum Parthorum," existing in the second century, 

 embracing all these tracts from Multdn to the gulph of Cambay ; and to 

 that the Rdn I's ancestors must have owed expulsion from Ballabh't, in the 

 sixth century. But this is wandering from the subjecl.§ 



* See note C. 



f The translator's words are " Hoons of humbled pride." As. Res. V. 1. p. 136—7 H.T.C. 



X The Kat'hi lance is made to dart, as well as for close action. 



% I attribute to this dynasty a series of coins of an interesting description, on which I shall 

 hereafter offer some remarks. Legends, in rude Greek characters, mark these to be a branch of 

 the Arsacian line. For they assume the same lofty titles BXCIXGYC. BXCIXSCUC 

 CCDTHI'CDC : on others, MerXXOY instead of Soteros; making it still more Parthian, 

 the latter epithet being borne by the Bactrian princes, who never did assume this " of the great 

 King of Kings " 



