72 ESSAY ON" 



may be a corruption from ViasH-BALA, or Vrija- 

 BALA, pronounced in general, Brubala', and 

 Bihjwa'la\ This was also one of the many names 

 of Balix, the founder of the Dijuastics of the, 

 And'hras^ and Andlira-hhrilyas, 



VII. From Gaiulidha^ Gaiid^i-varsha, or Gaiid- 

 xcar.slw, its inhabitants are called Gadrosi^ by Arui ax : 

 tlieir country Gaiidaris, by Diodokus tlie Sicil'iaUy 

 and Gorj/^/;;^/.?, by Noxxus in liis Dionij.sicas*, and 

 this last comes nearest to Gauri'dha. This passage 

 is really curious and interesting. The poet is enu- 

 merating the various nations which joined Deriades, 

 or Duryo'd'haxa, and Morrheus, the Alahd-Rdjd, 

 in the great war. Then came, says he, those, who 

 live toward the east of India, in the populous 

 country of Encoila, the abode of warlike Aurora, 

 and in the divine Goiyandis, with its well cultivated 

 fields. After them came those who inhabit the 

 country of Oeta, the mother of long lived elephants, 

 ranging through its extensive forests. EncoUa is the 

 coixntry of Utcala, now Orissa : formerly inhabited 

 by a warlike ^ace, at last extirjjatcd "by the Carn'as, 

 or kings of J?/<7«"«('/V/^, according to the inscription 

 on the pillar at Buddaul. Ut-cala, or Ud-cala, 

 implies the great, and famous country of Cala : and, 

 in the spoken dialects, as well as in Latin, Udc a la, 

 2nay be pronounced Uc-cala, as Ac-currere, for Ad~ 

 currerc. Nonnus gives to Gaura-desa the title of 

 divine, from its capital city, which was originally a 

 place of worship, in a forest, dedicated to the goddess 

 Gauji. From this circumstance, it is called Cory- 

 gaza, by Ptolemy, from the Sanscrit Gauri-ghosha. 



The country of OzV^, or Oeta, is that of Oude, w'itli 

 forests in the northern parts, still abounding with 



* Nonui Dionys. lib. 2(J. v. 294?. 



