344 NATURAL HISTORY OF 



They are all importations from Balkh, modified in each 

 region by local ingredients. The historical Pandoos are 

 first placed geographically beneath Cashmere, in the 

 hill country north of Lahore, or as others relate, the 

 Pandian Raij was on the borders of the Jumna, with 

 a tribe named Bahikas among them ; after their migra- 

 tion and wars in the south, they are established in the 

 Gomerian Celtic state, the present Carnatic, with Ma- 

 dura for its capital. It is in this vicinity that frequent 

 cromlechs, locally denominated Pandoo Coolies, are to 

 be found ; and they exist likewise near Bombay, where 

 the caverns of Salsette, like those of Elora (Yeroola), 

 confirm that the Pandya tribes, like Rama, originally 

 came from beyond the Indus, and carried on a reli- 

 gious war of conquest against nations who had a solar 

 worship. That they penetrated to Ceylon, may be 

 surmised from several striking coincidences in the 

 oldest legends of the island, when compared with the 

 ancient western tales ascribed by Welsh poets to the 

 druids. The significant prefix, Tre or Ter, joined to 

 towns and places, is even now as frequent on the main 

 land, and in the islands, as it is in the Celtic provinces 

 of Britain or France.* If Krishna, the blackener, a 



where the Indian deluge took place; Heri and Baldiva 

 are solar personages, and the land of their birth is still 

 marked by numerous cromlechs. 



* Compare the Ceylonese legends in Upham, with the 

 Celtic tale of Iseult and Tristrem, where the dog with 

 three different coloured spots, red, blue, and green, repre- 

 sents the candidate for orders in bardic druidism ; and the 

 five colours of the Hibernian are similarly typified by dogs 



