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On Supposed carhj Celtic 



[No. 3a, 



throw light on (he emigration of people from east to west. Wilford 

 considers the Marimdas, or Maunas, to be Huns. The Tamil has no 

 aspirate, and Mavunal may be (without the sandhi) Md-Unal the 

 great Hun people. The Ahhiras are sometimes considered as equi- 

 valent to a?'-vb'al six fingered people ; and tribes so distinguished are 

 said to have been known. A field wide enough is certainlj^ opened ; 

 but if the Celtae were known in lesser Asia by the name of Titans and 

 Sacks, and as the Cymri in Wales, that alone is almost sufficient to 

 throw light as to the existence of Cromlechs in the Carnatic. For the 

 Sacks were doubtless a branch of the Sacae or Scythians (not des- 

 cended from Gomer, but closely related), then it may follow that the 

 Danes and Cymri, and Scythians had customs in common : the use 

 of the Cromlech being one of them. And that the Sacae, or Scythi- 

 ans, penetrated through the length and breadth of India seems more 

 than probable. With respect to the Huns, I am not at all clear in 

 my perception as to their entry into India ; unless it were that class 

 of them residing north of Persia. I should be glad if this paper 

 might meet the eye of Dr. Schmid, now on the Neilgherries, and in- 

 duce him to favour the Journal with a paper on the subject of their 

 connexion with India, if he deem the matter of sufficient consequence. 



I have yet a little to add which must be somewhat of a discursive 

 character. Several years ago when I was in the habit of receiving 

 periodicals direct from England, there was a paper in one of them, in 

 the shape of a review, which interested me. It traced the passage 

 of Bauddhism into the north of Europe ; dealt in legends of Thor, 

 Woden (Buddha) and on Runic inscriptions; one in particular. Had 

 it not been my own I should have taken notes ; but thinking it al- 

 ways available it has come not to be so, being either mislaid or lost. 

 My memory however serves in one point, sufficient for the present 

 purpose. There was a Siberian legend quoted, which though under 

 different names, I at once recognized as being identically the same 

 with the somewhat ludicrous one, given from the Mackenzie papers, 

 in this Literary Journal,* vol. 7, p. 12, jigastya figures in that legend. 



* I take occasion to remark, by the way that the mounds of scoriae noticed by Captain 

 Newbold, and supposed by the Editor to have some possible relation with the hillock of 

 pebbles in the Carnatic, were probably the burnt bones of the vast multitudes who fell 

 in the wars between the Dekhini Mahomedans, and the Vijayanagarans. Ferishsta 

 speaks of piles of heads, in their neighbourhood. It is not impossible that in other places 

 indicated, vol. 7, p. 132, the heaps may be the burnt bodies oi Bauddlms or Jainas, for 

 a connection with the Bauddhas is intimated by the names given ; and a sufficient num- 

 ber of them were killed in the times of persecution. Besides some of the localities are 

 those of great battles, 



