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ON THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS 
Colar as the oldest name of India we know of. That theory, 
however, must now be abandoned, and with the disappearance 
of Diopithuse from the pages of Plutarch, the whole edifice of 
conjecture so ingeniously raised on the supposed occurrence 
of this name, must fall to the ground ; there being absolutely 
nothing to support the assumption that India was known in 
the earliest times as the Kolarian Empire. 
Sir George Campbell supported Colonel "Wilf ord by stating 
that India " seems to have been known to the ancients as 
Colara or Coolee Land and the people as Colaurians and 
by eventually advocating the name Colee or Xolarian for the 
aboriginal tribes of India. I need not specially mention 
that the dictionary of Greek proper names, compiled by Dr. 
VV. Pape, does not contain Diopithuse as a name, though it 
refers to the nymph Kalauria and the river Chliaros.-* 
I had here in Madras at my disposal only the antiquated 
edition of Xylander printed by Antonius Stephanus, in which 
the reading Diopithim occurs. Though doubting its accu- 
racy from the first, I was not prepared to emendate the text, 
for besides my own conviction and the note of Maussacus, I 
had no evidence to go upon. Later on, however, 1 consulted 
Dr. Pape's excellent Dictionary of Greek names ami the 
fact that it makes no mention of Diopithuse confirmed my 
suspicions. To ascertain the tmth, I eventually •vsTote to 
'^^'Yh.& WoTterhuch der griechischen Eigcnnainen von Dr. W. Pape gives 
Kalauria as the name of a nymph, e.g. on p. 235 (third edition) 
"Ganges,-^) S.-des Indos u.-der Kalauria, welcher sich in den Chliaroa 
stiirzte, woven dieser den Namen Ganges erhielt. Pint. Jlm\ 4, 1 ;" and on 
p. 596 under Kalauria: •■'Nymphe, Gem. des Indos. M. des Ganges, 
Plut.Jluv. 4, I." 
Kalauria or Kalaurcia is the well-known island with the famous temple 
of Poseidon, which opened a safe asylum to sill pui-sued. Demosthenes 
when hunted down hy the ^lacedonians, poisoned himself in it. The islsiud 
was called after Kalaurcs, a son of Poseidon. Kalauria belonged originally to 
Apollo who had exchanged it with Poseidon for Delos. Poseidon is therefore 
also called Kalattreates, Kalauria in contradistinction to Kalabria is some- 
times explained as ' ' laud ot peace ' ' and Kalauros as " peaceful " (Frederic). 
