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from parai, drum, offers a parallel example^ as I have pre- 
viously explained on p. 60 in Part I.^^ 
If Gondophares can be accepted as the actual name of 
the well-known Parthian king who ruled in North-'Western 
India in the neighbourliood of Peshawar, one may possibly 
associate his name with that of the Graudian or Gond tribe. 
However, the name appears in so many variations on coins 
and inscriptions that it is a difficult matter to settle. On the 
Greek obverse of some coins we read Yndopherres, which 
Dr. Aurel Stein inclines to identify with the Old-Persian 
Vindaferna, winning glory. On the Arian-Pali reverse 
Gudaphara or Gadaphara is generally found. The name of 
Gondophares is of additional interest as the legend connects 
it with the visit of the Apostle Thomas to India. The 
locality of the adventures of Saint Thomas was eventually 
transplanted to South India ; and Mailapur, now a subm-b of 
believe in the derivation froni Kanh, and to suppose that it was afterwards 
altered hy the Musulmans to the modem form. Krishna, under the name of 
Khandoba, is at this day, and would seem to have long been, a favorite 
divinity in the country." 
By substituting Khandoba for Krsna Mr. Sinclair supports my theory, 
though Khandoba as a representation of Siva could hardly be identical 
■with Krsna. 
5^ See " An Account of the Mhadeo Kolies," by Captain A. Macintosh in 
the Madras Journal of Literature and Science, vol. V, pp. lOS-111 : "Whatever 
malady man, woman, or child, or even their cattle, may be seized with, the 
Kolies imagine it is produced by the agency of some evil spirit or offended 
deity .... two or three sheep are sacrificed as a peace-offering to the 
goddess Bhoany (Dewee) and the gods Ivliundobah and Bhyroo, and the 
Gondhul ceremony takes place afterwards." 
In H. H. Wilson's Glossary we read on p. 182 : "Gondatia, Gondala, or 
Gondii, Gondhala, or Gondal. A tumultuous festivity in honovir of the 
goddess Devi, celebrated, even in Mysore, chiefly by Maratha Brahmans, it 
being a Maratha festival (from the Mar. Gondhala, tumult, bustle), consist- 
ing of music, and dancing, and recit^ition of mythological stories ... It is 
probably the same thing as the Goiid/ial." 
" Gondhall, incorrectly Gondali, and Gondii, or GondUe, corruptly 
Gonediillee. The name of a caste, or indiWdual of it, whose business it is to 
sing and dance, and perform the Goiidhal : in some places the Gondltali is 
the village drummer, sometimes ho is a vagrant musician, d;mcer, and 
tumbler, or subsists by begging." 
Read also Historical and Descriptive SJcetch of His Highness the Xizam's 
Dominiuiis, vol. I, pp. 316, 317 : " The Gondhalis. — Members of this sect. . 
