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they forthwith demolish, amidst tumultuous yells of applause from a multi- 
tude of spectators, the mimic fortress of the usurper. 
After the grand war, on which the Yadu federation was broken up, the 
Panpts, with Hert and Baxzpeva, abandoned their dominions on the 
Yamuna for Saurashtra. Here, in their ancient haunts, they remained some 
time; but if we judge from the traditional accounts of Hrnrr’s assassination, 
and Arsuna’s being despoiled even of his bow, by the aboriginal races, they 
must have lost all their power. It is affirmed that such was the fraternal 
affection of Batpreva for Hert, that he would not part with the body; but 
carried it about with him until decomposition took place, when he allowed 
it to be interred. Yupisurra, sick of dominion, together with Batprva 
and a band of the Pandis and Herictilas, abandoned the peninsula of the 
Sauras, and crossing the Indus, retired to the north, and were supposed to 
have perished in the snowy mountains of Himachel. During this retreat 
a portion of them may have lingered in a nook of the Punjab, and formed 
the nucleus of the Sobii* adorers of Hercules, found by Alexander 350 
years before Christ. 
On this termination of the fortunes of the Yadis, Apuimun, son of 
Arsuna, succeeded to the throne of Indraprestha, or Dehli, abandoned by 
Yuprsnrra, who left therewith his era; while Hert and Batpeva had the 
honours of deification, the former in Mat’hura, the latter in that called after 
him Batpéva, vulg. Butpeo, the Heraclea of India. 
Regarding Buima tradition is silent; but those multitudinous uninscribed 
columns scattered every where over India bear his name, being termed 
Bhim-ca-sila, Bhim-ca-tir, the pillars of Buim; the arrows of Brim; also 
Tuili-ca-lat’h, or the “ oilman’s staff,” from the custom of pouring oil and 
marking them with a cross of vermilion. As Buima was a Hericila, these 
are the Pillars of Hercules. Mythological history records no less than forty- 
three deified heroes bearing this name.t 
* According to the Raj Taringini of the celebrated Vidydhar, minister of Soway Jey Sing, 
their retreat was “ by Tatha Mooltan to Badrinath.” They could move in no direction without 
finding people of their own race, more especially in the Caucasian (Kho-khdsa) range, whence 
they originally came. The Guickers, Joupis, Jonyas, and other tribes bordering these 
alpine barriers, maintained the habits of the Pandus to a very late period; and Polyandrism still 
prevails there as amongst their colonies in Malabar. 
+ It might be deemed idle to contrast the Exodus of the Hericiila from India with the 
return of the Heraclide into the Grecian Peloponnesus: the periods agree; for this event was 
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