OF BHARATAVARSA OR INDIA. 
189 
These remarks Lave been made with a view to introduce 
here the inhabitants of the Kunawar district, which is 
situated in the Himalayan mountain range. The people of 
this country are generally known as Kunets or Kanets, but 
call themselves Moa. Sir Alexander Cunningham' remarks : 
" With respect to the name of Man, which is given to the 
*' Kanets or Khasas by the Tibetans, it does not appear to be 
" a Tibetan word, as it is used by the Kunets themselves to 
"designate the ancient possessors of the hills, whom they 
" acknowledge to have been their own ancestors." On very 
slight, and, as I think, on very suspicious linguistic evidence 
does Greneral Sir Alexander Cunningham connect the Mons 
of Kunawar with the Kolarian Mundas, and thus with the 
Kolarian population of India. I, on the other hand, regard 
these Kunawari Mons together with the Kulindas as a branch 
of the Gaudian tribe of the Grauda-Dra vidian race, and even 
Sir Alexander Cunningham cannot deny the possibility of 
" a Grondish affinity for the Kunets." I have a very high 
respect for the earnest, indefatigable, and ingenious researches 
of the late chief of the Archaeological Survey of India, but 
no single individual, however gifted, can write so much 
without occasionally committing errors, and if I disagree at 
times with Greneral Sir Alexander Cunningham's statements 
and conclusions, I must acknowledge at the same time the 
great obligations I owe to him in common with all who 
consult his excellent writings. 
India conferred occasionally the title Manya Sultan on Velama chiefs and 
other princes. Manya in this sense stands for Manyadora, and has nothing in 
common with the Sanskrit word Manya from man, to consider. 
See Sir Alexander Cumiingham.'s Archaeological Survey of India, 
vol. XIV, pp. 125-135 ; more especially p. 127 : " All the ancient remains 
within the present area of Kunet occupation are assigned to a people who are 
variously called Mowas, or Mons, or Blotans, and all agree that they were 
the Kunets themselves . . At Dwara Hath there are numbers of monuments 
like tombs built of large flat tiles, which the people attribute to the Maowis or 
Monas. These I take to be the monuments of the ancient Kunindas or Kunets 
before they were driven from Dwara Hath to Joshimath . . (P. 128). In 
Dhami and Bhagal and in all tlie districts along the Satlej there are numerous 
