Lieut.-Colonel Tov’s Comparison of the Hindu and Theban Hercules. 157 
sway actually extended to Samarkhand. While this branch of the 
Hericila under Nasa thus ruled in central Asia, the sons of his brother 
Kuira fixed themselves, the first, Juaregsa, in Saurashtra; the other, Jud. 
bhan, at Benera and Juddoo-ca-dang.—Saurashtra, the Syrastrene of the 
Greeks, the kingdom of 'TEsarroustus, conquered by Mrnanper, embraced 
from the Indus to the gulph of Cambay; while the Jowdis, or mountaineers 
of Joude, a small cluster of hills in the Punjab, remained a distinct race even 
to Baber’s days. But it would be impossible here to give even an indistinct 
outline of those important branches of the Hericila races, who with their 
Cura or Caurva brethren, have left indelible traces from the ‘ Cliffs of 
Caucasus” to utmost isle Taprobane.”—The “ Caroora regia Cerobothri,” ad- 
joining the “ M/odura regia Pandionis,” on the Coromandel Coast, was in all 
probability named from a colony of the children (pura) of the Curus; and 
Coromandel itself may be Czri-mandala, the region of the Cuirts. 
Colonel Wilks, in his valuable History, while describing Madura as the 
capital of the Panduan race, says, “ This invader, from his wonderful suc- 
cess, is said to have been attended by an army of demons (Bootum), 
and thence called Booté Pandé Raj.” But this presents an additional 
proof of these colonists prefixing the name of their great patriarch BUpia 
to their own. ‘The characters discovered in the Carnatic are the same as 
those in the columns and rocks at Dehli, Saurasthra, and Medhya-désa. 
Wilson,* in his erudite “« Remarks on the History and Chronology of 
Cashmere,” proves that a long line of the Curis, or Caurvas, and Pandus, 
ruled in Cashmere; and points out from classical authority a Pandu colony 
even in Sogdiana, Now this would perfectly assimilate with what is said of 
their establishments from Zabulisthan, and the Marvzis?’hali, mentioned in 
the old couplet (page 142), may be the desert of Sogdiana. But it appears 
to me, that Cort, the progenitor of this extensive race, was king of all 
those regions, west as well as east of the Indus, and that he pro- 
fessed the religion of Bina, the patriarch of his race, who, being from 
Sacadwipa, was styled Sdcydmoont, teacher of the Sacw, in his twofold 
capacity of priest and king, and that all these characters found on rocks and 
* I had written the notes for my Dissertation on Mr. Perry's ring long before I saw Mr. Wil- 
son's History of Cashmere, indeed, I might say, before it appeared in England; the coincidence 
of our opinions is, therefore, the more extraordinary. I feel gratified at having such support to 
my hypothesis, 
