Licut.-Colonel Tov’s Comparison of the Hindu and Theban Hercules, 141 
to this race ; and although one peculiar character forms the inscriptions of 
all such monuments, still there are sceptics as to their existence, and who 
imagine the “ Great War” as fabulous as the Trojan. For such there is 
no law of historic evidence, short of mathematical demonstration, that will 
suffice. The triumphal column of the Yadus,* at Delhi, mentioned by 
the bard Chand seven centuries ago; that at Praga, the first seat of their 
power ; the Forum (Chdor?) of Buima,t in the valley of Mokundurra ;t the 
caves of Dhoomnar, of Nasuk, and Girndr, with their various rock inscrip- 
tions ; the sepulchral monuments of Pandit mandalam§ in the Carnatic, and 
many other places, separated a thousand miles from each other, might in 
vain be appealed to. 
It has been the fortune of the writer to wander over a great portion of 
the space sacred to Pandé traditional history, to have visited their monu- 
ments, to have discovered the sites of some of their ancient and long- 
forgotten cities,|| and their medals, to have copied numerous inscriptions 
attributed to them, and to have conversed with many of the Tiiar tribe, 
who would deem it an insult to doubt their descent from this illustrious 
race: until the impression on his mind is, that the existence of the Etrus- 
cans or Assyrians might as well be doubted as that of the Pandus. But 
who, asks the sceptic, were these Pandiis, who possessed in Baladéva a 
chieftain with the attributes of Hercules ? 
The traditions of the Hindus assert, that India was colonized by a race 
called Yadu,§ to which they trace the foundation of the most conspicuous 
of their ancient cities. 
* Pandi is a great branch of the Yadii race, having Bidha as its patriarch. 
+ One of the Pandd leaders; an engraving of this, the most ancient fragment of architecture 
I have seen, is engraved for the second volume of the “ Annals of Rajasthan.” 
{ The Pass (durra, or dwarra) of Mokund, an epithet of Heri. 
§ The “ Pandionis Regio” of Ptolemy, having Madura as a capital, which yields conviction 
that the Pandis colonized this region, and gave the name of their old seat of power, Mathiira on 
the Jumna, to the new settlement. It is my intention to enter more fully on this subject 
hereafter in a paper ‘On the Sepulchral Monuments of the Rajpoots,” which will furnish ano- 
ther link in the chain of evidence of the Scythic origin of some of these. 
| Arore on the Indus, and Séirapiira, capital of the Séraséni (of Arrian) on the Jumna. 
q For a sketch of this race see History of the Tribes, “« Annals of Rajast'han,” vol. i. p. 85. 
The Yadus are in the unpolished dialect pronounced Jadt or Jadoon. Strange to say, a branch 
