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existed then : and two rival cities, so near, or rather 

 close to each other, could not exist together; and 

 tlie vicinitv oi Gauda probahlv induced the kino-s of 

 MagacVha to reside at i^atua ; and this, at so early a 

 period, that even the name of the ancient capital is 

 almost effaced from every record^ and even from the 

 remembrance of the Hindus. 



The emperor SrI-De'va-Pa'la-DeVa boasts of his 

 havino- humbled the Hiin'as, a foreio-n tribe, who 

 ]iad invaded India, and are occasionally mentioned 

 in the lists of countries and tribes in India, They 

 succeeded tlie Parthians, and seem of course to be the 

 same with the Muriuulas, whose thirteen kings ruled 

 in the northern parts of India, immediately after the 

 Tushdras or Parthians. These are the Morandce of 

 Ptolemy, who were masters of the whole country 

 to the north of the Ganges, from Delhi to Gaur in 

 Bengal. They are declared in the Purdn'as to be 

 Mlhiihas, imjiure tribes, and, of course, they were 

 foreigners. The same are called Maryanthes by ()p- 

 PiAN in his Cynogetics*, who says that the Ganges 

 runs through their country. Cosmao calls them 

 white Huns ; and relates, that when he wrote, their 

 king GoLLAs besieged a certain city, and that his 

 elephants and horses drank up the water round it, 

 and thus forced it to surrender. This has happened 

 very often in the parched countries of Bicanere and 

 Jesselmere ; and it docs not even require a numerous 

 army, to drink up the scanty waters of a few wells 

 round a city : but then the besiegers, far from taking 

 the town, are obliged to raise the siege in the 

 greatest distress. 



The seven Cark'as, in despite of the Brdhmanical 

 tribes, are still famous all over India; and their me- 

 mory held in the greatest veneration, and their fame 



* Oppian Cynoget. lib. 4. v. l53. 

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