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" peninsula to this day, Coldris and Colairs, and in the 
" north of India Coles, Ooils and Coolies ; thus it seems, 
" that the radical name is Cola. This appellation of 
" Colar was not unknown to the ancients ; for the younger 
" Plutarch says, that a certain person called Ganges, was 
" the son of the Indus and of Dio-Pithusa, a Calaurian 
" damsel, who through grief, threw himself into the river 
" Chliaras, which after him was called Ganges ; and Chliarns 
" is probably a mistake for Cnlaurius, or the Colarian 
" river. I believe, that Dio-Pifhus is the name of the 
" father and Sindhu of the mother : for Deva-Pithu, or 
*' Beo-Pithu, is worshipped to this day on the banks of the 
" Sindhu, a female deity. The etymology of Color is pro- 
*' bably out of our reach : but it is asserted by some that Cola, 
" Coil, or Cail, signify a woodlander, exactly like Chael, Gal, 
*' in Great Britain ; and the etymological progress is the same. 
" In several dialects of the peninsula Cadu, is a forest, and 
" its derivative is Cddil ; from which striking off the d 
" remains Cail^ 
I come now to the passage in Plutarch's work "On 
Rivers," which has originated all these statements about 
India's ancient name Colaria. Plutarch gives in his work 
some legendary accounts of twenty -five rivers. Three among 
21 The article to which. Sir George Campbell refers when quoting vol. IX 
of the Asiatic Researches is the suggestive " Essay on the Magadha Kings," hy 
Captain F. Wilford, where on p. 92 we read : " The offspring of Turvasu, so 
far from settling in the west, is declared, in the Barivansa, to have settled in 
the southern parts of India ; and in the tenth generation, including their 
Sire, four brothers divided the peninsvla among themselves. Their names 
•were Pandya, Cerala, Cola, and Chola : and this division obtains, even to this 
day. Cola lived in the northern parts of the peninsula, and his descendants 
are called Coles, and Callers to this day : and they conceive themselves, with 
much probability, to be the aborigines of India, to which they give the name 
of Caller or Colara. Hence, we read in Plutarch, that the Ganges was called 
formerly the Calaurian river, and the same author mentions a Calaurian, 
or Hindu, and a handsome damsel, called Diopithusa, who was also a Calaum 
rian, or native of India, or country bordering upon the Calaurian river." 
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