Lieut.-Colonel Tov’s Comparison of the Hindu and Theban Hercules. 147 
Vichitra, son and successor of Santana, sovereign of Hastinapoor, had 
no male issue. He had two legitimate and one illegitimate daughters. Of 
the first, one from her colour was named Pandea. Vyasu,* their Girt, or 
spiritual father, the sole male of the house of Santana, took this niece, 
his spiritual daughter Pandea, to wife. She bore him Pandi, who suc- 
ceeded to the sovereignty of Northern India, and which from that time 
has been designated the Pandian Raj, or kingdom of the Pandus. 
Thus the identity of Arrian’s relation with existing tradition is main- 
tained throughout, even to Pandea, daughter of the Hericila king, giving 
her name to “ the province in which she was born.”t By a slight sketch 
of the issue of Panpea, we can fill up the picture of similitude drawn 
by Diodorus on the achievements of the Hercules of the Yadus, who, 
« in strength (bala) excelled all men, and cleared the sea and land of mon- 
sters and wild beasts.” 
Pandi, son of Pandea, married Koonti, sister of Basdéva, prince of 
Mathira,t the father of Heri and Baldeva. But, “for the sins of their 
ancestors, sterility was the doom of the wife of Pandu, until, “ by means 
of a charm,” she enticed the celestials to her bed. By Dhermaraj (Minos) 
she had Yudishtra; by Pavan (Zolus) she had Bhima; by Indra (Jupiter 
Celus) she had Arjana; and Nycila and Sydéva owed their existence to 
Aswini-Komara, the Hindu Esculapius. 
These are the “ Five Pandus” whose exploits fill the traditional history 
of India, and, though a mixture of truth and fiction, must not be rejected. 
* Vyasu, author or compiler of the Vedas, was the son of King Santana by Yojnaganda, a 
fisherman's daughter. She was ‘/a belle Batteliére’ of the Jumna, and in ferrying over the 
Hericula king, proved he was no saint, though he begat one. It is doubtful whether this humble 
mother of the first name in Hindu literature, and parent to its proudest kings, did not become 
the legitimate wife of the king. Her epithet of Yojna-ganda, or the “ Fragrant,” imports one 
«the aroma of whose frame extends for a yojna,” or four miles. 
+ A section of the Mahabharata is devoted to an account of the Hericila or Herivansa, and 
from some extracts I had made, it is made to appear that this race came from Southern India, 
but these were too superficial to permit me to give any opinion on the subject. We can have 
little doubt that the Pandumandalam of the Carnatic, the Regio Pandionis of Ptolemy, with its 
capital Madira, was colonized by the Pandus from Mathura. The pastoral region of Heriana, 
between the Jumna and the Sutlej, was likewise named from a colony of the HericGla. 
{ They were of the same stock, and what we term first cousins: a degree of propinquity 
termed incestuous by the Hindus. And another among the many proofs that this race was 
foreign, or Scythic, is, that the canons regulating the degrees of matrimonial affinities had not 
then been promulgated. 
U2 
