■HISTORY OP CASHMltt. 47 



advanced to the realms of Uttara Curu, whence satiate with glory, and Li- 

 aen with plunder he returned to his own dominions.* 



On his return to Cashmir Lalitaditya rewarded his principal officers by 

 bestowing' upon them subordinate kingdoms: in this way he conferred 

 upon his dependants the principal cities of Jalandhara and Lahora (Lahore :) 

 he also devised particular marks to be borne by the different tribes, as 

 characteristic of their submission to his power. Thus the Turushcas were 

 obliged to shave half the head, and the Dekhinis to let the ends of their 

 waist cloth hang down like a tail behind, and these distinctions are still 



* Whatever may be the truth of the military excursion of this Priace, the account of it given 

 in the original, which has been here followed as closely as the state of the manuscript would 

 admit, is a very curious specimen of the author's geographical accuracy and knowledge, and 

 throws some light upon the state of India at the period at which he wrote :it may therefore be 

 worth while to revise his track : from Canouj through the eastern districts of the present Com- 

 pany's possessions, Lalitaditya may be supposed to have marched to the delta of the Ganges, 

 and Berhamputra, where we have what our author calls the Eastern Sea; and the coast along the 

 upper part of the bay of Bengal, therefore, constitutes the country that he calls Calinga, whence 

 a slight deviation to the right brings him easily to Gaur, equivalent in its widest sense, to 

 the greater part of the modern Bengal. The transit hence to Carndtd is rather a consider- 



able stride, although it is obvious that the upper part of the Peninsula is intended, by re- 

 ference to the Burgas of the Vindhya chain of mountains, unless indeed we extendthe term 

 to the eastern Ghauts, which may be considered as lateral processes from the main ridge; as 

 indeed the next stage is the Caveri river, we come then to the southern limits usually assign- 

 ed to the ancient Carnatd kingdom. The Sandal or Malaya mountains are the western Ghauts, 

 over which as the king marched from Mysore he would necessarily come into the CWic«M/the 

 seven divisions of which, as well as the seven Cramucas, are something new to us, although 

 from the voyages of the two Arabians, and of the early Portuguese and Dutch adventurers, we 

 know, that that part of the Malabar coast was divided amongst a great number of petty so- 

 vereigns. The seven C&ncanas are indeed known in the Dekhin still, and comprehend the whole 

 of the Parasu Rama Cshetra, or the greater part of the Malabar coast : they are named Kerala 

 (Malabar), Tuhtngaox Tuluva, Gova Rdshfra or Goa, Concana proper, Kerdtaha, Varalatla&nd 

 JBerbera; the seven Cramucas, it might have been conjectured, were connected with the term 

 Cranganore, but the original name of that province is properly written Corangalur ^^"ffST^) 

 and they possibly signify some of the groupes of islands oft' the coast of Malabar; the island of 

 Dwdraca, in Guzerat, the kingdom of Crishna, is the next stage, and was visited more in vene- 

 ration than enmity : from hence across the Vindhya mountains the king comes to Oiijein : his 

 anarch to the north, or rather northwest, brings him to Camboja; according to Wilford (A. 11. viii. 



