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haps the Sixth Avatar, where it is related that Vishnou, in the 

 form of Parasha Rama, destroyed the Chetrie, Xeterie, or 

 warrior caste, may signify that the Arkite Pandoo States were 

 ahle to defeat the Rajpoots in their endeavors to penetrate into 

 southern India. 



Soon after the period of Alexander's invasion, further dis- 

 Kations took place ; a portion of the Cuthai (Cathai), however, 

 remained, but the Malli, it seems, were already driven to the 

 southern Ghauts, probably by Arachosian or Affghan conquer- 

 ors, who, for many ages, held sway from the sources of the 

 Cophis or Cabul river, across the Indus, to the Hyphasis or 

 Sutlej, and caused the Indian empire to be regarded as extend- 

 ing westward to the confines of Persia. Most of the tribes, 

 whose names occur in the histories of Alexander, and that can 

 now be deciphered in Indian geography, are no longer in the 

 plains, but form clans in the mountains. 



The variously mixed races from the north-west and north- 

 east, with the aboriginal Papua tribes, can be traced by the 

 deepening color of their skins towards the south, and by the 

 greater remains of true Papua features, taking into account 

 anomalies of circumstances. It is so, likewise, with the influx 

 of Sanscrit; becoming less prominent in the south, where Pali 

 prevails, and it is also marked by the Brahmanic system of 

 religion, the Vedanta creed becoming more and more modified 

 by other idolatries, and by the Budha doctrines taking refuge 

 in Ceylon, where it appears to have incorporated a whole native 

 detnonolatry. This last religious institution was, with its Naga 

 worship, no doubt, established during the period when the 

 peninsula of India was still in the power of the Papua tribes, 

 and was sufficiently exciting to have been carried westward, 

 not only by migrating Negroes, but also by the Ethiopic Stem, 

 by Mongols, and even Gomerians, in their progress to Europe. 

 India being at that early period a scene of conflict, the invaders 

 found sovereignties either already established, or formed them 

 by degrees, as their irruptions became permanent. In the 



