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in Hindu fiction. Next come the Sibce, the Sivas of Pauranic geography, 

 the people of Hydarke and Karmina, and those inhabiting the mouth of 

 the Indus and islands in its vicinity, under Rigbasus and Aretus, with 

 his five sons Lykus, Myssus, Glaukos, Periphras and Melanes. We 

 have then the inhabitants of the Pyke or passes, perhaps the Ghats ; of 

 the Eastern Eacolla, which Major Wilford recognises in Utkala or 

 Urissa, and of the fertile Goryandis, Gaura-des or Bengal, and O-etha, fur- 

 nishing superior elephants, which the same authority conjectures to be 

 Ayodhya or Onde. The armament is completed by the people of Erislo- 

 bareia, the Derbici, the Ethiopians, Sakai, Jiactrian and woolly-headed 

 Blemys. All these obey Deriades, who is the son of the Hydaspes by 

 the Nymph Astris, a daughter of the Sun by Ceto the Naiad. The 

 Hindu legend makes Duryodhan, not the son exactly but the descendant 

 of the Sun through his daughter Tapati the Naiad, or Goddess from whom 

 the Tapti river derives its name. 



In the twenty-eighth book, a battle takes place between the forces of 

 Bacchus and Deriades : the Indians are described as armed with swords 

 and shields, bows and arrows, their Chiefs wearing mail, and mounted on 

 chariots, or riding on elephants : some of them use swords twenty cubits 

 long, an exaggerated description of the two-handed sword which may 

 sometimes be seen in India. The Cyclopean followers of Bacchus fight 

 with brands and bolts of fire : the chief hero of the Indian army is termed 

 Korymbasos, but he is at last kilLed, and the Indians are repulsed : they 

 rally again ; and the battle is resumed in the twenty-ninth book, until 

 night separates the combatants. 



In the thirtieth book, Morrheus falls upon the Satyrs, and wounds 

 Eurymedon, the son of Vulcan, who comes to his succour and involves 

 the victor in a flame of fire. Hydaspes comes to his aid and extinguishes 

 the flame. This is undoubtedly Indian, and both in the Mah&bh&rat and 



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