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from place to place ; these in especial they look upon as 

 constituting their flocks and herds ; by their aid they wage 

 their wars, and fight in defence of their territories. Strength, 

 age, and size, are the points usually considered in making 

 choice of these animals. 



In the Ganges there is an island of very considerable 

 size, inhabited by a single nation; it is called Modoga- 

 linga. 57 Beyond the Ganges are situate the Modubse, the 

 Molindas, the Ubera3, with a magnificent city of the same 

 name, the Modresi, the Preti, the Caloae, the Sasuri, the 

 Passalae, the Colobse, the Orumcolae, the Abali, and the Tha- 

 lutae. The king of the last-named people has fifty thousand 

 foot- soldiers, four thousand horse, and four hundred armed 

 elephants. We next come to a still' more powerful nation, 

 the Andarae, 58 who dwell in numerous villages, as well as thirty 

 cities fortified with walls and towers. They furnish for 

 their king one hundred thousand foot, two thousand horse, 

 and a thousand elephants. The country of the Dardse 59 is - 

 the most productive of gold, that of the Seta? of silver. 



But more famous and more powerful than any nation, not 

 only in these regions, but throughout almost the whole of 

 India, are the Prasii, who dwell in a city of vast extent and 

 of remarkable opulence, called Palibothra ; 60 from which cir- 

 cumstance some writers have given to the people themselves 

 the name of Palibothri, and, indeed, to the whole tract of 

 country between the Ganges and the Indus. These people 

 keep on daily pay in their king's service an army, consisting of 

 six hundred thousand foot, thirty thousand horse, and nine 

 thousand elephants, from which we may easily form a con- 

 jecture as to the vast extent of their resources. Behind these 



57 Inhabited, probably, by a branch of the Calingae previously mentioned. 

 53 Ansart suggests that this may be the modern kingdom of Pegu. He 

 thinks also that the preceding kingdom may be that now called Arracan. 



59 These may possibly be the Daradrse of Ptolemy, but it seems impos- 

 sible to guess their locality. 



60 Probably the present Patna. D'Anville, however, identifies it with 

 Allahabad, while Welford and Wahl are inclined to think it the same as 

 Radjeurah, formerly called Balipoutra or Bengala. The Prasii are pro- 

 bably the race of people mentioned in the ancient Sanscrit books under the 

 name of the " Pragi " or the Eastern Empire, while the Gangarides are men- 

 tioned in the same works under the name of " Gandaressa" or Kingdom of 

 the Ganges. 



