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* Ariana’ I am unable to say. The change, on the southern frontier of 
the Maratta country, to a Canarese population seems to be abrupt, and 
there are few traces of progress of the tribes southwards at that point, 
Jam inclined to think that the aborigines held out in the hilly 
country about Sattara and Poonah till a more recent date, and that 
the Arian immigration into the south principally occurred by a route 
farther to the east through the Telinga country, which may possibly 
have been then more extensive than it now is. In this I put aside 
the question of maritime immigration from the west. 
The Telinga country seems, from some source, to have been civilised 
at a very early date, and there appears to be reason to believe that a 
good deal of the country about Warangal and thence eastwards to- 
wards the sea, was in a better state than that into which it has 
since fallen. Much of the ancient Telinga country is said to have 
been taken from the Koles who (in the sense in which I have used the 
word) are not now adjacent—the Gonds intervening —and the country 
was it seems anciently called “‘ Kalinga” which may be another form 
of Coolie-land. The old Telingas seem to have been a maritime 
people, and it was probably they who carried Hindu ideas and perhaps 
some Hindu blood into the Hastern Isles. To this day the Hindus 
of the Hastern Coast are called ‘‘ Klings’’ on the opposite side of the 
Bay and in the Islands, a name evidently derived from Kalinga or 
Kalinga. It is then much to be hoped that we may obtain some 
better knowledge of the Telinga country. 
The Bainjagas, who are very important in the Canarese country, are 
stated to be comparatively humble in the Telinga country and reduced 
to the condition of cultivators and labourers, while the mercantile 
business is in the hands of Comtees or Comatiyas, claiming to be a 
race of pure Arian Vaisyas. The dominant classes are others of Arian 
character, whom I shall presently mention so far as I know them, 
All this would seem to indicate that if the Banees, being according to 
my speculation western immigrants, ever reached the Telinga country 
as Srawaks or Lingamites, or with some earliest forms of that type 
of faith, they have since been reduced and humbled by Notthern 
Arians, 
The principal people of whom I find mention in the Telinga 
country are Aylmas or Velmas, said to be “the Rajpoots of the 
