158  Lieut.-Colonel Tov’s Comparison of the Hindu and Theban Hercules. 
columns scattered throughout India belong to this race, distinctively called 
Anva,* Indu, Chandra, Soma, in opposition to the more ancient Suryas, the 
earlier sovereigns of India. 
It only remains to mention the monogram, compounded of two letters, 
which may be found both in the Samaritan and Celto-Etruscan alpha- 
bets. It will be recollected that on the first discovery of the ancient 
inscription at Dehli, the idea floated that it was Greek, and the Pandu 
pillar was converted into a trophy of Alexander. It is to be wished that 
some clue to these incriptions could be found, or that they might be traced 
in Panchalicd, Cashmere, and tracts west of the Indus, as well as the Pan- 
dian Raj (Dehli and its dependencies), A/edhya-désa (Central India), Sau- 
rashtra, and the Carnatic. One of the compartments of the Girnar-rock 
inscription in the peninsula of the Sauras (the Suge of the Periplus, where 
terminated the conquests of the Greco-Bactrian kings, Mrnanper and 
ApoLLoportus) concludes, with the identical letters on the intaglio, placed 
disjointed and detached from the inscription, thus as it were showing their 
importance. I subjoin them, and likewise a few of those characters having 
that resemblance to the ancient Greek or Etruscan, which led to the error 
described. We know what these are not, that they have no affinity to the 
Dévandgari. The first line contains characters of the oldest Greek or 
Etruscan; No. | is the ancient kappa, supposed by Payne Knight (p. 9) to be 
anterior to the Trojan war; 2, is the Celto-Etruscan zeta ; 3, the lambda ; 4, 
is the old sigma, and occurs as often as 5, the modern sigma; 6, the Greek 
delta, is the Celto-Etruscan beta or v, and answers to the Samaritan ain; 
7, 8,9, the omicron, theta, phi, require no remark; 10, is the Celto-Etruscan 
ro; and 11 and 12 are also Etruscan. 
The second line contains ten letters, which are Samaritan, an aleph, be, 
pe; he, ain, nun, tau, tau, while the various other Jetters on this rock appear 
compounds from these. But this proves nothing but a superficial similitude. 
I hold all these inscriptions at the disposition of the Society; by the pub- 
lication of the fac-similes, the learned of Europe may be enabled to form 
their own conclusions, whether they possess more than external resemblance 
* Anacoonda or Anagoondé, a suburb of Vijyanuggur, is, in all probability, derived from 
Anva. Colonel Wilks says from the Mackenzie Papers, the Yadava or Yadu race founded this 
ancient abode. He adds, “innumerable traces exist of vast and successive emigrations of this 
race of herdsmen (palis) and warriors, who carried devastation amongst the agricultural tribes 
of the South, and in process of time became incorporated with their opponents.” 
