336 The Birth of Umé— [Juxy, 
The mountaineers, skill’d in the dangerous chase, 
Can still, though unseen, the destroyer’s path trace ; 
The frontal pearls, dropt from his claws on the way, 
Point out where the monster has borne his huge prey. 
ns 
Yavanas or Greeks, the Sace or great Indo-Scythian nation, the Persians, Par- 
thians, Chinese, the Darade, and inhabitants of Khasa-giri, or Cashgir, the 
Indian Caucasus,) who are said to have fallen to the lowest class from their origi- 
nal distinction of Xatriyas or Rajpitas, by neglecting the proper religious rites of 
their caste, and ageing, no Brahmans. 
HART fararetariga: QTasray: 
uae Ta Bla MAUTNAT | ee | 
GIWSATSFz(ASl: AAS BTA: WaT: 
GIXSl GH aTSran: facrat Star: GAT: | ee | 
The historical drama Mudra-Rdxasa enumerates the Kirdtas together with 
the Sace, the Macedonian Greeks, the Cambojas, the Persians, and Bactrians, 
as having inundated from the N. W. frontier, under the conduct of Chdnakya, 
Chandra-gupta’s able and wily minister, the ancient capital of the Nanda kings ; 
aa gaa farcrara TTT Taree Hehe fereroaTafa WATT SR 
qaaataatatufatte waaay feaeiead ae: wares RIATT | 
Act II. p. 41, ed. Wils. The note of the learned translator (p. 64, of “the 3rd 
volume of his Hindu Theatre) here well deserves to be consulted. I would 
only add, with reference to two statements in it, that as the name yy Vavan or 
ws (Iaoves), which is known to have been the common appellation of the Greeks 
throughout western Asia, leaves no doubt of the Yavanas here being the followers 
of Alexander the Great,—so there is as little reason for ascribing a vague or uncer- 
tain site to the Kiratas or Cirrhade. The most accurate of ancient geographers, 
by whom alone the name in this correct form was given to the western world, has 
in the 12th chapter of his 6th book, fixed with singular precision the position of 
these mountaineers with respect to the other Sogdian tribes, viz. on the eastern 
side of the Oxus, not far from its source in the Paropamisian mountains, near 
where their range meets that of the Indian Caucasus ; and not far from where 
Alexander fixed the site of the last of the cities called by his name, before 
he invaded India. Thus the Kiratas are north of the Bactrian tribes, and due west 
of the Sacz, in the parallel of about 37° N. agreeably to what might be inferred from 
the Indian history preserved in the Mudra-Rdxasa. [The existence of a country 
called Cirrhadia, east of the Delta of the Ganges, the modern kingdom of Arracan, 
might lead to some confusion: but in the position of the ¢rive of Cirrhade by 
Ptolemy, there is no ambiguity : and his error in making the latitude of this and 
the circumjacent places too far north by about 4° is no impeachment of the accuracy 
of his redative description, obtained from the routes of the mercantile travellers of his 
day.] I will only add, that these same Kiratas seem laid down under the name of 
CiraBz Inp1 along the Imaus range towards the north, in that curious monu- 
ment of antiquity, the Peutingerian Map (Sect. vii., a Paralocis (quae ?) 
Scythis usque ad finem Asie.] 
