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Bheels ; for Bhil, the god or native prince of this people, slew 

 Krishna with an arrow; and in another mythus likewise killed 

 Heri, one of the Pandoo brethren. Defeated or expelled his 

 conquest, Bali-Rama is related to have been an exile from 

 Oude, wandering with his wife Sita, who, being carried off by 

 the giant Ravan, king of Lanka, originated the war with the 

 Rakhshasas, cannibal giants, in Ceylon. After great opposi- 

 tion, the insular defend is surmounted by the bridge which 

 Hanuman makes of mountains to unite the island to the con- 

 tinent; and although Rama himself is at one time captured by 

 the Cauravas, the hero divinity and Sita are both released, 

 Ravan slain, and the powers he ruled destroyed. There is in 

 this mythus a religious war indicated, as well as a war of 

 races ; the victory is evidently indecisive, since the conqueror 

 returns to northern India, and afterwards reigns in Oude. In 

 this great and brilliant poem is the first notice of the people of 

 Balkh, in Transoxiana, under the name of Bahlikas. They 

 are represented as a kind of fairy philosophers, residing in the 

 holy mountain, or sacred centre of religion ; still bearing a cer- 

 tain resemblance to the revered and wise Scythians of the 

 Greek poets. 



In the second period we have no longer wars of entirely dis- 

 tinct human stems, or at most with only the partial adhesions 

 of the Naga races to the invaders ; they became wars of inva- 

 sion upon predecessors, or intestine conflicts among tribes 

 equally mixed. The Mahabarata mythologizes the worldly 

 interests of these nations into religious struggles between the 

 Pandoos and Kurus or Cauravas, the children of the moon and 

 the sun ; which may be interpreted by the Celtic, or followers 

 of a lunar arkite doctrine, opposed to the Semitic or solar wor- 

 ship, which belonged more probably to the people of the south. 

 The Pandoo brethren appear to be Gomerian Celta?, sons of 

 Pandu and of Coonti, a princess of Mathura, sister of Heri and 

 Baldiva, the Indian Hercules. Coonti had, by several gods, 

 Yudistra, Bhiraa, Arjoon, Nycula, and Sydiva, all clearly his- 



