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ON THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS 
PART i. 
THE DRAVIDIANS. 
CHAPTEE II. 
The names of Ancient Kings and Astjras indicate the 
NAMES or THE PEOPLE OVER WHOM THEY EtJLEl). 
Among the tribes and people whom I regard as Dra- 
vidians, whose names are derived either directly from Mala 
or from cognate terms, and who are of the same race as the 
Mallas or Pallas, which term is chosen on p. 34 as their re- 
presentative designation, I may mention the Maras (]yiirirs, 
Mahars, Maharaa or Malas), Maris, Maravar, Pariahs, 
Parjas, Paravar, Paravari, Ucopovapoi, Paratas, UapovTai, 
Paradas, Parheyas, Bars (Bhars, Bdppai), Brahuis ; the 
Mallas (MaWol, Malli), Malas (Mais or Maras), Mala 
Arayar, Malacar, Malayalis, Malavas, (Malvas), Malair 
(Maler or Paharias), Mallar or Pallar, the Palliyar, Polaiyar, 
Pulayar, HoHyar, Pulindas {IJovXlvSaL), Pundi-as, Pallis, 
Palas, PaliSj Pallavas (Palhavas, Pahlavas, Pahnavas, 
Plavas), Pandyas, Ballas, Bhallas, Bhlls (Bhillas, ^vXkl- 
rai), Bhillalas, Ballalas, Yellalar, Velamas (Yallamas, 
Vallambams), Valluvar, Ac.'" 
The Rgveda only rarely confers special names on the 
Indians who opposed the Aryans, and these names wherever 
they occur cannot be easily" recognised and explained. 
On the other hand the Indian gods adopted, particularly 
in later times, the names of the demons they had defeated in 
The Milvella or <1/(fr?//rt/!(7 wliom Lnsson in his Indischc AUcrlfiums- 
kinidc (voL I, p. "51, or 005) idontifios with the Megalloi of Megastheues ' 
as occupying' Mflrwar, might perhiips bo added to this list. 
