^6 ENUMERATION OF 



" of Sumbhadeja : and twice-born men, brought by for- 

 " mer Princes, have been eftabli (bed in Bdda Magadha % 

 " Varendra y Chola> Swernagrdtw, China Cula y Saca, 

 " and Berber a." (1.) 



I (hall proceed, without further preface, to enume- 

 rate the principal mixed clafles, which have fprung 

 from intermarriages of the original tribes. 



i. Murd' habhifhi5fa y from a Brdhmana by a girl of 

 the CJhatriya clafs: his duty is the teaching of mili- 

 tary exercifes. The fame origin is afcribed in the 

 great D'herma-pirana to the Cumbhacdra y (2,) or pot- 

 ter, and Tantravdya, (3,) or weaver: but the Tantra- 

 vdydy according to the Jdtimald> fprung from two 

 mixed clafles, begotten by a man of the Manibandha 

 on a woman of the Manicdra tribe. 



2. Ambajhfha y or Vaidya y (4,) whofe profeflion is 

 the fcience of medicine, was born of a Vaijya woman, 

 by a man of the facerdotal clafs. The fame origin is 

 given by the D' her ma-pur ana to the Canjacdra y (5,) or 

 brazier, and to the Sane" hacara y (6,) or worker in fhells. 

 Thefe again are fhted, in the Mantra, as fpringing 

 from the intermarriages of mixed clafles ; the Can- 

 Jacdra from the tfdmracuta and the Sanc'hacara ; alfo 

 named Sanchaddreca y from the Rdjaputra and Gdnd- 

 hica : for Rdjaputras not only denote Cjhatriyas as Ions 



of 



(1.) Anga includes Bhdgalpur. Benga, or Bengal Proper, is a 

 part only of the Suba. Varendra* or tract, of inundation north 

 of the Ganges, is a part of the prefent Zila of Rajejhdhi. Calinga 

 is watered by the Goddvcri, (sift. Ref. vol. iii. p. 48.) Camrupal, 

 an ancient empire, is become a province of Ajam. Odra I under- 

 stand to be Orifa Proper. Rada (if that be the true reading) 

 is well known as the country weft of the Bhdgirat'ha. Mdgadha, 

 or Magad/ia, is Bahar Proper; Chdla is part of liiibhum. Another 

 region of this name is mentioned in the Afiatick Refearches, vol. 

 iii. p. 48. Swernagrdma, vulgarly Sunargau, is fituated caft of 

 Dacca. China is a portion of the prefent Chinefe empire. On the 

 reft I can offer no conjetlure. Sac a and Berbera, here mentioned, 

 mud differ from the Dwipa, and the region fituated. between the 

 Cujha and Sancha Duypas. (2.) Vulgarly, Cumdr. (3.) Vul- 

 garly, Tanti. (4.) Vulgarly, Baidya. (5,) Vulgarly, Cdftrd, 

 (6,) Vulgarly, Sac hcra» 



