THE EASTERN OEIGIN OF THE CELTS. 285 



direct line from Tirhut, flowed the Dyardanes, and near it dwelt the 

 Aminaclise. South of Amara or Ambra in Central India appeared 

 Mesolia, with another Cocala and, better still, a Caliguris ; while 

 Hippocuria Kegio seems a mere Helleuized form of the name Abiezer. 

 Comaria and the Tamra river in the south would indicate that the 

 descendants of Zimran had penetrated to the extremity of the penin- 

 sula. Mr. Hyde Clarke's valuable Researches in Prehistoric and 

 Protohistoric Comparative Philology, (fee, first drew my attention to 

 the Sumerian or Zimrite character of Fai-ther India, including Malaya 

 and Cambodia.^' This distinguished philologist points out the in- 

 teresting fact that the Cambodians call themselves Kammeren Khmer, 

 and connects them with the great Sumerian family. He also holds 

 that Malacca and not Britain furnished the supply of tin of which 

 the Sumerians made use from an early period. Samarade in Malaya 

 is a mark of Zimrite occupation, and so are ^fagrasa, Acadra, Thagora, 

 which may be forms of Abiezer or Ezer ; Maleucolon, in which 

 Mahalah or his mother may find a record; Calligicum, a reminiscence 

 of Chalcol ; and Tharra, which commemorates Dara. 



The regions inhabited by the Zimrites in India were at one time 

 peculiarly Buddhist, especially Miyulu or Mithila.^^ The musical 

 dewa Tunbara„ pertaining to Buddhist mythology, may have been 

 Zimran. He must certainly have been the Sumuri or Sambara of 

 the Brahminical mythology, which plainly betrays enmity to the 

 Buddhist families. He was slain by Indra.'^' The queen Mallika 

 answers to Hammoleketh, but she is wrongly made the wife of Ajasat 

 or Ishod, instead of liis mother.^" Ajasat, as a wicked king, may be 

 the same as Chetiya, who built Astapura and Daddara.^^ If so, he 

 is improperly called the son of Upachara or his brother Abiezer, and 

 the father of Muchala or Machalah, the youngest of the three sons of 

 Hammoleketh. Mahali, a famous king of Buddhist story, is no 

 doubt the same person as the latter.^^ The ornament Mekhali, which 

 Buddhist writers treat of, will yet be found to connect with similar 



-^ Researches in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Comparative Philology, Mythology and 

 Archseology, in connection with the Origin of Culture in America, and the Accad or Sumerian 

 Families, 42. 



28 Hardy's Manual of Buddhism, 129. 



2' WUsou's Vishnu Purana. ' He must also be Cumara, the god of war, a character that will 

 yet appear to have heen borne by two of his descendants. Vide Crawford's Indian Researches, 

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