340 NATURAL HISTORY OF 



torical heroes or tribes, enveloped in mythological and allegori- 

 cal forms; but the mythological circumstances being a parallel 

 of the Egyptian, Greek, and Roman, they are necessarily older 

 than the ages of Bali-Rama, or of tip Pan loo brethren.* They 

 are all importations from Balkh, modified in each region by 

 local ingredients. The historical Pandoos are first placed 

 geographically beneath Cashmere, in the hill country north of 

 Lahore, or, as others relate, the Pandiati Raij was on the bor- 

 ders of the Jumna, with a tribe named Bahikas among them; 

 after their migration and wars in the south, they are established 

 in the Gomerian Celtic state, the present Carnatic, with Madura 

 for its capital. It is in this vicinity that frequent cromlechs, 

 locally denominated Pandoo Coolies, are to be found ; and they 

 exist likewise near Bombay, where the caverns of Salsette, like 

 those of Elora (Yeroola), confirm that the Pandya tribes, like 

 Rama, originally came from beyond the Indus, and carried on 

 a religious war of conquest against nations Avho had a solar 

 worship. That they penetrated to Ceylon, may be surmised 

 from several striking coincidences in the oldest legends of the 

 island, when compared with the ancient western tales ascribed 

 by Welsh poets to the Druids. The significant prefix, Tre or 

 Ter, joined to towns and places, is even now as frequent on the 

 main land, and in the islands, as it is in the Celtic provinces 

 of Britain or France.t If Krishna, the blackener, a designa- 



■+ It may lie observed that the Pandoos are children of the watery ele- 

 ment. Coonti is a native of the locality where the Indian deluge took 

 place ; Heri and Baldiva are solar personages, and the land of their birth 

 is still marked by numerous cromlechs. 



t Compare the Ceylonese legends in Upham, with the Celtic tale of 

 Iseult and Tristrem, where the dog with three different colored spots, red, 

 blue, and green, represents the candidate for orders in bardic druidism ; 

 and the five colors of the Hibernian are similarly typified by dogs in the 

 mystical language of the initiated. We name here a few localities, bear- 

 ing the prefix ter, tre, tir ; Travancori State, Terepuney, Teruwalla, Tri- 

 vandrum, on the west coast ; Trichindoor, Tirun, Tiripauramun, Teroomun- 

 galum, Teruchooly, Terumboor, Tripatoor, Teruvunpette, Trinchinopoly, 

 Tirnvalur, Tranquebar, Trinchingode, Tircoiloor, Triomalle, Tirovady, 



