or BHARATAVAKSA OR INDIA. 
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Yet, considering that the Dravidians gravitated in the 
course of time towards the south, while the Gaudians 
preponderated in the north, and that the Brahmanic divi- 
sion corresponds with this fact, we may not err in assuming 
that the Brahmans introduced this arrangement among 
themselves after the Gauda-Dravidians had thus settled 
down in their respective places. However, even this sup- 
position will not supply us with accurate dates, especially 
as Southern India was already known as Dravida at a com- 
paratively early period. 
It seems thus very improbable that the Gauda-Brahmans 
were originally called after the celebrated town Gauda, or 
after the kingdom of which it was the capital, especially if 
the true derivation of this word is from gauda, 'fts', molasses 
(from guda), and if Gaudadesa is an equivalent of Sugarland, 
an explanation which also appears to be doubtful. The name 
Gauda applies to most Brahmans in the North, but it is 
also used as specifying a particular sub-division ; in the 
same manner as Dravida has also a general and a special sig- 
this tradition, yet I am induced to retract a conjecture formerly hazaided 
by me, that the Gar of our maps was the "original country of the Gaura 
priests." 
Sir Henryj M. Elliot supports in his Supplementary Glossary of Indian 
Terms, London, 1869, vol. I, p. 102, the Pandava legend : " They (the Gaur 
Brahmans) all state that they came from Gaur in Bengal, but there is much 
improbability in the story. There can be little doubt of Kanaujias emigrat- 
ing on the invitation of Adiswara from Kanauj to Bengal ; how then can we 
account for the whole tribe of Gaurs not only leaving their native seats, but 
crossing through the country of the Kanaujias, and dwelling on the other 
side ofjthem ? If they emigrated in or about the time of the Pandavas, as 
universal local tradition would induce us to suppose, it would lead to the 
inference that Kanaujias are a more modern race. Gaur, moreover, was 
only made the Bengal capital shortly before the Mahomedan conquest, 
and that is too late to admit of its giidng a name to one of the ten tribes." — 
Compare also ibidem the remarks made on the Gciur tagd on pp. 106-115. 
Dr. Francis Buchanan mentions the legend of a westward Brahmanic 
emigration from Gaur, but disapproves of it also finally. He alludes to it 
twice in the third volume of his History, Antiquities, Topography, and 
Statistics of Eastern India ; thus on p. 42 he writes : " One (tradition) is that 
