Major Tod, cm an Inscription at Madhucarghar. 213 



which keeps down the carpet, and dashed it against the splendid mirror. 

 Rage was unavaihng ; the patriot chief called for his prince's steed, and 

 compelled him to mount. A flood of tears succeeded the indignity ; 

 which were allowed to flow without any signs of sympathy by the stern 

 chief: when, suddenly, a nobler sentiment came to mind ; he bowed and 

 thanked the Salumbra chief, and, drawing his sword, told him to lead the 

 way. That very day, they stormed and took Untald* I shall be excused 

 the notice of this anecdote, as it shews the character of the people, and 

 warrants the praise which the ambassador of England bestowed. Such men 

 could not be conquered ! 



Yet, with every wish, I could never trace the connection of the Ranffx 

 family to the Porns of Alexander; though his ancestor, when first attacked 

 by the Muhammedans, had " eighty-four kings assembled witiiin his walls, 

 for the defence of Chit6re." The six hundred of the Powdr must have been 

 a Hindu exaggeration. 



The letter to Augustus was written in tlie Greek character ; and Bayer's 

 authority, Nicolas of Damascus,! says it was so, and he had seen it. Con- 

 siderable traffic was carried on by them in those days ; and Greek merchants 

 were settled in various parts of the coasts. The personage in the suite of 

 the ambassador, who voluntarily ended liis days at Athens on the pyre, was 

 most probably a Jaina.t 



Abul Fazil's sketch of the Prdmdr-a dynasty, in the institutes of Akber, 

 is too imperfect to be of tlie slightest uss; and is the worst of his many 

 indifferent genealogies. 



Avanti and Dhdrdnagari were the chief seats of Prdmdra power. It ex- 

 tended south, however, of the Nermadd ; and comprehended all Central 

 and Western India, or what is erroneously termed Rajputdnd. 



The Indus, and Sellej or Garali, were its western limits. Many of tiie 

 traditionary couplets in India contain historical facts. That which records 



* A fortress about twenty miles cast of the pass which conducts into the valley of Udayapur. 



t Historia Regni Graecorum Bactriana, p. 109. '■ Tanto autera post Eucratidem tempore, 

 cum ad Caesarem Augustum a Pandione Poroque Indiae regibus legati venirent, Nicolaus Da- 

 mascenus, qui cum iis Antiochise ad Daphnem egit, testatur habuisse eos, epistolam Gra;cani in 

 Diphthera .Scriptam, quae significavit, quod Porus sex centorum regum princeps cum scripserit." 



I See Note E. 



2 F 2 



