330 On Egypt and the Nile . 



with materials for a fuller account of them: even their miferable remains 

 in India mull excite compaffion, when we oonfider how great they once were, 

 and from what height they fell through the intolerant zeal and fuperftition 

 of their neighbours. Their features are peculiar j and their language dif- 

 ferent, but perhaps not radically, from that of other Hindus: their villages 

 are ftill called Palli ; many places, named Pa/ita or, more commonly, 

 Bhilata, were denominated from them j and in general Palli means a vil- 

 lage or town of jhepherds or herd/men. The city of Xrshu, to the fouth 

 of the Vindbya mountains, was emphatically fly led Pa/li, and, to imply its 

 difcinguimed eminence, Sri-palli : it appears to have been fituated on or 

 near the fpot, where Bopdl now Hands, and to be the Sari-palla of Pto- 

 lemy, which was called Palibothm by the Greeks, and, more correctly 

 in the Peutingerian table, Palipotra ; for the whole tribe are named Palipu- 

 tras in the facred books of the Hindus, and were indubitably the P&libotbri 

 of the ancients, who, according to Plin¥ 8 governed the whole country 

 from the Indus to the mouth of the Ganges j but the Greeks have confound- 

 ed them and their capital city with the Baliputras v whofe chief town, de- 

 nominated from them, had alfo the name of Rdjagriha, fince changed into 

 Rdjamahall : as it was in the mandala, or circle, of the Baliputras, it is im- 

 properly called by Ptolemy, who had heard that expremon from travellers, 

 Palibothrce of the Mandalas, 



We have faid, that Irshu had the furaame of Pingdcjha, or yellow-eyed, 

 but, ia fome dictionaries, he is named Pingdfd or yellow as fine gold% and 

 in the track of his emigration from India t we meet with indications of that 

 epithet : the Turki/h geographers confider the fea-coaft of Yemen, fays Prince 

 Kantemir, as part of India, calling its inhabitants yellow Indians', the 

 province of Ghildn, fays Texeira, has alfo the appellation of Hindu I 



