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from what I bad advanced in my essay on J?m-Gan- 

 gam, which was ah'eady in the press, when I found, 

 in perusing" various tracts, several scattered passages, 

 which have induced me to make the present cor- 

 rections and additions. I shall conckide this essay 

 with a few remarks on the various tribes which ruled 

 over the countries bordering upon the Indus, and the 

 Vindhyan mountains, according to the Paitrdn'icas. 

 The Icshwdcavas, or children o^ Icshzvdcii, who ruled 

 in the countries watered by the Indus ; and this dy- 

 nasty consisted of 24 generations. The Abklras, or 

 Shepherds, in the upper parts of the Indus, ten g-ene- 

 rations or reigns : then the 'Sacas, under ten kings, 

 and probably kings of Persia. Then came eight 

 Yavana kings, or Greeks of Bactriana ; and fourteeii 

 TiisJtdran'as, or from Turdn ; and these belonged 

 probably to the Parthian dynasty. Then came 

 seven Garddabhinas, thirteen Morundas, or Biirun'- 

 daSj as many Hiuia kings, and eleven Maunas, 

 Many suppose the Morundas and Maun'as to be 

 dynasties of various branches of the Hunas ; but they 

 produce no authority, and it is of course a mere sur- 

 mise. Be this as it may, they are acknowledged to 

 be foreio:ners. The Garddabhinas are the descend- 

 ants of Garddabha, or Bahram-Gur, who began 

 his reign in the year 421. The Hunas are the white 

 JTm/w of Cosmas-Indicopleustes, and consequently 

 the same with the Euthalitcs, or white Huns, who 

 were settled in the Panjdb, in the seventh century. 

 The Vindhya-Sacti is a collateral dynasty, descended 

 from Kosru-Perviz, and which began between the 

 years 820 and 830. Their metropolis was Udaya- 

 piira, and the Paurmiicas have recorded the names 

 of seven of them, who reigned all together 90 years. 

 The Morundce of Ptolemy are the same with the 

 Morunda ; Burunda, or Burun't'a of the Purlin as. 

 They are only mentioned once, in the prophetic chap- 

 ters; and are supposed, by some Pandits, to be a 

 ti'ibe of Huns; but this is a mere surmise, founded 



