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ON THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS 
applicable. The Mahadeo Kolis assert that their ancestors 
subdued the Gaulis, and to these are also ascribed most 
of the earlier graves. The Grauli chiefs, according to tradi- 
tion, ruled in the Central Provinces long before the Gond 
Rajas. I believe that future enquiry will prove that the 
Gauli Rajas were not Aryans, but that they, like other 
tribes similarly named, belonged to the Gaudian race.*^ 
I must not omit to mention here the ancient tribes of the 
KiiUnda, Kuluta, (Koluta, Koluka) and Kauluta (Kaulubha), 
who inhabited the high mountain ranges of the Himalaya 
in North India. Their names occur in one form or other in 
the Mahabharata, Ramayana, Visnu Purana, Brhatsarhhita, 
Mudraraksasa and elsewhere in Sanskrit literature, while 
Ptolemy's KvXivhpLvrj (Kylindrine, VII. 1, 42) coincides in 
position with the country which some of these tribes formerly 
Refer to pp. 90 and 92, n. 12, where the Gauln.s are mentioned. 
See Mr. Charles Grant's Gazetteer of the Central Provinces, p. 301 : 
" Among the people (of Nagpur) tradition, widespread though vague, is not 
wanting, pointing to a time far anterior to the Gonds, when throughout 
Deogarh Gaull chiefs held sway. The exploits and renown of these ancient 
chiefs are often referred to in the songs of the villagers. There are forts 
too, and tanks and temples, or remnants of such structures, e^^dentlT the 
handiwork of races preceding the Gonds. . . 'It was a frauli, not a Gond king 
so our father told us,' this is the common answer to all questions respecting 
such relics." The same legend is told about the fortifications of Eamtek, 
ibidem, p. 428. Compare in the Indian Antiq'iarij, vol. I, pp. 204, 20-5, 
Mr. W. F. Sinclair's article on the " Gauli Kaj " in Khandesh and the 
Central Provinces : " 1 think, therefore, that the most probable explanation 
of the Oauh Raj is this, — that Gauli was the surname, or nickname, of a 
f amil)r of princes (and not of a nation) of Aryan race who established them- 
selves in the valleys of the Tapti and Narmadd during the great migration 
southward which ended in the colonization of the Dekhan by the Aryan 
IMarathas." Mr. Sinclair's remarks were criticized by Mr. W. Kamsay on 
p. 258 ; notice also Mr. Sinclair's query : " Hemild Pant and the Gauli Rajas " 
in the Lidian Antiqiiari/, vol. VI, pp. 27", 27S. 
Captain A. jMacintosh remarks in his " Account of the Jtlhadeo Kolies"' 
in the Madras Journal o f Literature and Scit'i.iv, vol. V (1S37\ pp. 251-2.r2 : 
" There is a popular tradition among the people in this part of the country, 
that the Gursees were the original inhabitants of the Dukhan, and that they 
were displaced from the hilly ti-acts of the country by the race of Goullics or 
cowherds. Tiieso Goullics, it is s:iid, subsequently rebelled against their law. 
ful prince, who detached an army that continued unceasing in their exex- 
