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and his favourite, he gave India, or tlie middle 

 part ; to the others, who had incurred liis dis- 

 pleasure, he allotted inferior kingdoms. To,Yadu, the 

 ancestor of Crishna, he gave the south, hy ^vhich 

 they understand the l^cccan or Peninsula. The north 

 to Anu, the east to Druhya, and the west to 

 TuRVASU : hut this division does not agree with 

 what we read in the Harivansa. Besides, as the 

 Brdhmens acknowledge that they are not natives of 

 India, hut came from the N. W. and that Canoge 

 was their first settlement; their ancestors, at that 

 early period, surely could not yet have conquered 

 India, or even made any settlement in it. The off- 

 spring of TuRVASu, so far from settling in the west, 

 is declared, in the Harivansa, to have settled in the 

 southern parts o^ India ; and in the tenth generation, 

 including their sire, four hrothers divided the Penin- 

 sula among themselves. Their names were Pandya, 

 Ce'rala, Cola, and Cho'la; and this division ob- 

 tains even to this day. Co'la lived in the northern 

 parts of the Peninsida, and his descendants are called 

 Coles and Collers to this day; and tlicy conceive 

 themselves, with much probability, to be the abori- 

 o'ines oi India, to which thev oivc the name o^ Caller 

 or Colara. Hence we read in Plutarch, that the 

 Ganges was called formerly the Calaurian river; and 

 the same author mentions a Calaurian, or Hindu, and 

 a handsome damsel, called Dfopetiiusa, who was 

 also a Calaurian, or native of India, or country bor- 

 dering upon the Calaurian river '*. 



In the same manner, we find the posterity of Anu 

 dividing the eastern parts of India, among them- 

 selves, under the names of Anga, Banga, Calinga, 

 Pundhra (now Tamlook) and Undhra (or Orissa); and 

 we are always reminded, that Cuisiina and the Pa'n- 

 DAVAS came from the w^est, and their first settle- 



* Plutarch, de flumiQibus. 



