142 Lieut.-Colonel Ton’s Comparison of the Hindu and Theban Hercules. 
Hasti, the twenty-sixth in descent from Pooru, son of Ydydti, founded 
Hastinapoor, on the Ganges, long the capital of Upper India; and although 
not mentioned by name in any of the Greek writers, was probably the regal 
abode of the Porus* who opposed Alexander. From Hasti issued several 
tribes, of which the Czrués and Pdndis were the most distinguished; while 
from Yadu, elder brother of Pooru, issued the Hericiila, or “ race of 
Heri,” who erected the cities of Stirpoora, Mathird, and Baldéva, on the 
Jumna.t 
It is not my intention to seize upon the curious nominal similitude of 
which Arrian was probably ignorant when he started the hypothesis more 
than 2,000 years ago, of the identity of the Hercules of Thebes and of 
the Jumna, though the “ delight of Juno” (Herakles) might be proud of 
his descent from the Indo-Scythic Hericéla. 
Let us place what the Greek writers have said on this subject in juxta- 
position with the legends of the Jains and Poorans, and then comment 
thereon. 
of that extensive Oolooss of the Ghilji nation, the Eusofzyes, or “tribe of Joseph,” is called 
Jadoons, and their original seats about Guzni, a city claimed by the Yadus as founded by Raja 
Guj long anterior to the era of Vicrama. See “Elphinstone’s Cabul,” vol. i. for mention of 
the Jadoons. 
* Pooru continued to be the patronymic of the Yadi race until the more distinguished name of 
Céiré took the lead, who, to maintain their pre-eminence, contested by the sons of Pandu, another 
celebrated chief, caused that civil strife, termed the M4habharat, which ended in their dis- 
persion. The appellation Porus, which distinguished more than one of the kings of Northern 
India, during the Macedonian invasion, originated from the Poort of Yadi race. 
+ Praga, the modern Allahabad, at the confluence of the Jumna and Ganges, was esta- 
blished even before Hastinapoor, and is considered as the very cradle of the race of Pooru, 
whence its name Pordéga, abbreviated to Praga, the city of the Prasii of Megasthenes. The 
traditional couplets of the Rajpoot races, embodied in their old genealogical histories, are the 
most valuable relics of the past. One of these thus gives the foundation of the old Yadu 
colonies :— 
“ Ad Praga o'thanna 
Dodtyaé Mathirapoori 
Dwarica Raj-nat’h aya 
Chaotur-tanha Marist’ hali.” 
I would suggest the probability, that the disputed Palibothra should be Pooripiitra; i.e. the 
city inhabited by “ The children (piitr@) of Poord.” It is not uncommon thus to name colonies, 
ex. gr. the little state of Bhawulpore, east of the confluent arms of the Indus, is called «* Daod- 
