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Ambca, the elder sister of Pandea, bore (also by Vyasu) Dhertrashtra, 
who had a son, Duryodhana. This branch of the Yadus assumed the sur- 
name of Curt, from a celebrated ancestor. On Pandu’s death, Duryodhana, 
(in consequence of his father’s incapacity from blindness) assumed the rod 
(charri*) of empire, proclaiming the illegitimacy of the ‘ Five Pandus.” 
Intestine broils followed, and the brothers were proscribed during the term 
of twelve years. Accompanied by their Hericula brethren, Heri and 
Baldéva, they perambulated every part of India, leaving these monuments 
still ascribed tothem. The deeds of valour performed in these wanderings 
are still the theme of local tradition, and would afford no mean parallel to 
the exploits of the Hercules of the west, though it would be difficult to 
separate the actions of the Pandus of Hastinapoor, or their Sitrasénic 
relations; Baldéva and Heri. 
Expelled from Hastinapoor they retired to the north, and on their arrival 
at Kampila, the capital of Drapdeva, king of Panchalica, found assembled 
the chivalry of India, suitors for the hand of his daughter Drupdevi. In 
those primitive days beauty became the prize of valour, and Arjuna’s skill 
in the bow obtained the meed; but as she sealed her choice by throwing 
round his neck the burmala, or marriage-garland, she drew upon the exile 
the undissembled wrath of the disappointed lovers. Arjuna’s bow, how- 
ever, again proved victorious, and they expiated their rancour with their 
blood. “ The princess of Panchalica became the wife in common of the 
five brothers.” 
The king of Kampila + was of the same original Yadu stock; his race 
* The Imperial Rod or “ Charri” is a long staff or javelin, and is often placed on the royal 
cushion or throne. The allusion to it in colloquial discourse is common. Charri myn zoor hyn, 
“ His rod is strong.” 
+ It is important to remark, that Ambassadors from the King of Kampila were sent to the 
Emperor CuAo in A.D, 408. The Chinese historians call it Kia-pi-l, and say that his name 
was Yue-GNAI, who was of the religion of Fo!!! Either his name is intended as Agni-pala, 
or that of his race, Agni-cila which was essentially Budhist. 
The communication from all parts of India, at this period, with all the princes of the dynasty 
of Sum, proves it to have been founded on a community of religious sentiment. The kingdom 
of Po-li, which sent ambassadors to Fi-1oAm-ti about fifty years after the first, was in all pro- 
bability one of the P4li kings of Central-India, about the Betwa River. Kiu-to (Cheetore ?) repre~ 
sented in the very heart of India, sent ambassadors in 516, when Cosmos was in India. But the 
most tangible of all is the embassy sent in A.D, 641 to Emperor Tai-tcong, from a king named 
Hou-lo-mien, his country Makito or Mokiato, in the heart of India, whose capital was Cha-po-ha- 
