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skins, still common in the rivers of the Punjab. A%/<a<n (pvsoChku §isjA<tM,& 

 hUv 'ThuGKriv. The Hydaspes endeavours to overwhelm the Bacchic host, 

 but their leader sets the river and surrounding country on fire. The river 

 submits, and its waters are turned to wine. The division under Deriades 

 is defeated, and retreats to the town, which, besides being strongly fortified, 

 was defended by its position amongst the mountains. We have here an 

 intimation that the name of Deriades is connected with the word for battle. 



The Sanscrit etymology of Duryodhana has a similar purport as would 

 appear to be intended for Deriades, being Dur, bad or strenuously, and 

 Yudh to fight, or Yodha war, battle. 



The rest of the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth books are filled with 

 old classical tales, wholly unconnected with the Indian war, which, it is 

 incidentally mentioned, will not be terminated for six years. 



In the beginning of the twenty-sixth book, Deriades again prepares 

 for war, and a curious enumeration ensues of his forces and their Chiefs. 

 Agrozus and Phlogius are the two principal generals. The troops are 

 from Kyra and Baidion, on the Ombelus river ; from the strong hold of 

 Rodoes, conjectured by Major Wilford to be Rotas, and from the Para- 

 pamisan mountains, the western portion of the Imaus or Himalaya chain — > 

 from the lofty Esineus and Gazos, which we may perhaps conjecture in the 

 modern Gizni. Next come the Dards, with whom we are familiar in Hindu 

 history as the Daradas, or mountaineers, on the borders of Kashmir — the 

 Prasil — the Prdchya, or eastern tribes — the Salangce, rich in gold — the 

 Zabii, with curled hair, under their king Palthanor, whom Bacchus, 

 after the war, removed to Thebes and the banks of the Ismcne — Did- 

 nasus, who is here termed the father of Orontes, and his other son, the king 

 Morrheus, burning to revenge on Bacchus the death of his brother; he 



