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middle or inland country, are the following tribes: 

 Bhadra, A?'hneda, Maridarya, Salava, Nipa, Ud- 

 jihana, Meru^ Vatsa, Ghosha, Yamuna, Sdrasz-ata, 

 Matsa or Matsya, all these are Mad'hyamica or in 

 the midland Mafhiiraca, Apa-Jyotisha, Uharmd- 

 ranya, Surasena^ Gauragriva with white necks, 

 Uddehica, Paridya, Gudasvaifha, Pmichala, Saceta 

 or Oude and Benares, Canca, Guru, Cdlacoti, Cu- 

 cura, Pdriydtra (said to be at the source of the 

 Chumbul), in oih^v Piircn-^as it is called Pcn^ipdtra ; 

 Naga, Audumbara, Cdpisht'ala, Gojdhvaya. To- 

 ward the East, are the Anjana, Vfishahha, Uhxiiaja, 

 Padma, Mdlyavafgiri^ Vyaghra-miicha or Tyger- 

 faced, Stihma, Cdrvat'a, Chdn'drapura, Suryacarana, 

 Chasa, Magadlia, Sivirgiri, the mountains of the 

 Siviras. (These no longer exist as a nation : their 

 name, in the spoken dialects, is Suh\ They are 

 said to have been very powerful once in the Gan- 

 getic provinces, as well as the Bhar tribe, who no 

 longer form a body.) The Siviras, or Sibiras, are 

 the Sabiri of Nonnus. Mifhila or North Bahar^ 

 Samatat'a, Un!dra, Asvavddana or horse-faced, Dan- 

 tiiraca, Prdcjyotisha, the Lauhitya river, Cshiroda- 

 Samudra, the sea or lake of milk, Purushdda or 

 Canibals, Udaya-giri, Bhadra, Gaudaca those of 

 Gadda or Gaiir, (the Corygazus of Ptolemy,) 

 Paundra, Utcala, Cast, Mecala, Ambasht'a, (the Am- 

 bastce of JiRiii AN,) Ecapada or single-footed, Tamra- 

 liptica or Tamlook, Cos'alaca, called Tos'ala-Cos'alaca 

 in the preceding list, Vardd'hamdna, or Burdwan. 



In the South-East is Cos'ala, Calinga, Banga, 

 Apa-Banga, Jat'ara, Anga, 'Svalica, Vidarbha, 

 Vatsa, And'hra, Vaidica, Urddhva-cdnt'a, with high 

 necks,) Vrlsha, NdUcera or Ndricela, Sumatra, ac- 

 cording to the Vrihatcafhd, Charma-dzvipa, Vind'- 

 hydntaravdsina, (living in the interior parts of the 

 Vind'hyan mountains,) Tripura or Tipperah, 'Smas- 



