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Romacas, or dreffed in hair-cloth ; the Sacas, and a tribe of them called^ 

 Sacaftnas; the Hindus of the Cfiatriyack{s x who then lived on the banks of 

 the Cbacfius, or Oxus ; the Paraficas,. a nation beyond the. Nile; the Barbaras, 

 or people of Nubia; the inhabitants of Cdmbdja%.th& Giratas and Hark as t 

 two tribes of the P*//*> s - and the Tavanas, or anceftors of the Greeks.-— 

 Thefe allies entered India, and defeated the troops of Viswa'mitra in the 

 country, called Tudha-bhumi r . or the Land of War 9 ,now Tebud, between the 

 Indus and the Behat, 



ParasV-Ra'ma, thefon of Jamadagni, but fuppofed afterwards to 

 Have been a portion of the divine effence in a human form, was enraged at the 

 fuccefs of the confederates, and circulated a publick declaration, that Na'eed 

 had urged him to extirpate them entirely; alluring him, that the people of 

 Cusba-dwipa,, who. dwelt in the hollows of mountains, were cravyddas, or 

 carnivorous, . and that their king Cravy a'd a'd h 1 p e t 1 , or Chief Ruler of 

 \ Cannibals, had polluted both earth and water, which were two of the eight 

 forms of X'sa,. with the mangled limbs and blood of the ftrangers, whom 

 he and his abominable fubjects had cruelly devoured. After this procla- 

 mation, Par as'u-ra'm a invaded Cufha-dwip^ and attacked the army of 

 Cravya'da'dhipeti, who ftepped from the ranks, and challenged him to 

 fingle combat: they began with hurling rocks at each other; and Ra'ma was 

 nearly crufhed under a mountain thrown by his adverfary, but, having difen- 

 gaged himfelf, he darted huge ferpents, which enfolded the giant in an inex- 

 tricable maze ? and at length deftroyed hirm The blood of the monfler form- 

 ed the Lohita-chan'da, and that of his army, the Lobitoda, or river with 

 bloody waters: it is, I believe, the Adonis of the ancients, now called Nahru 

 Ibra'hi'm, the waters of which, at certain feafons of the year, have a fan- 

 guine tint, I fuppofe Cravya'da'dhipati to be the Lycurgus 



