1 2 Remarks on the Sequel to the [Jan. 



the valleys along the base of the mountain ranges from Sylhet to Mis- 

 souri.* It is said to be of a superior quality in the Morung, and 

 doubtless, it is to this latter locality, which constitutes the country of 

 the Kiratas, that Ptolemy alludes, when he states : v™p 5 * T V K #a5fei> 

 cV ¥i <p a ji yiv^arOai rb Kd\ki<TTov fiaK^aBpov, viz., that the best malabathrum 

 is produced in the country of the Kirrhadse. 



The Bargoosi (Bapyvaw) are an ancient hill tribe of Eastern India, called 

 Bhargas in the Vishnu Purana.f The Bhargas and Kiratas are there 

 mentioned as people of the East who were subdued by Bhima. This 

 accords with a tradition current in Nepal and in the Morung, viz., that 

 Bhimsen the son of Pandu (the Bhima of the Vishnu Purana) had 

 dominion in that part of India, it being further stated that he was the 

 "king of 1,10,000 hills that extended from the source of the Ganges to 

 the boundary of the Plub, or people of Bhotan." The Kirats mention 

 Belkakoth in the Morung, as having been the site of the capital of his 

 kingdom.^: 



The mention of people " distinguished by the projection of the face 

 like that of the horse {irrmorrpoa-^votv and fiaKpoTrpoo-wTruv) is not a fiction 

 of Arrian's, but an absurdity, which he borrowed from the natives of 

 the country, various fabulous or marvellous tribes of the description 

 alluded to in the text, being mentioned in the Puranas, as inhabiting 

 the mountains of Eastern India. Wilford, in speaking of a people in 

 the vicinity of Bhotan, described by Ctesias as having the head and 

 nails of a dog, remarks : " We read also of tribes with faces, like horses 

 in these mountains." § He also states that mention is made in the 

 Vara Sanhita Purana of a people called " Asvavadana" or horse-faced, 

 and " Purushada" or cannibals. || The belief, indeed, in the existence 

 of people of forms or shapes, such as are here mentioned, has been 

 entertained by the natives of India from the earliest times ; and to them, 

 doubtless, must be ascribed the origin of the numerous fabulous stories 

 related by ancient authors from Megasthenes downwards, viz., " of men 

 with ears so large that they could wrap themselves up in them, of others 



* Buchanan— Royle. 



f Wilson's Translation of the Vishnu Purana, page 190. 



I Martin's Eastern India, Vol. 3, p. 38. As. Res. Vol. IX. page 68. 



§ Wilford. As. Res. Vol. IX. p. 68. 



|| Wilford. As. Res. Vol. VIII. p. 338. 



