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ON THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS 
been preferred in more ancient times, as is seen, in the 
Vedic words aram, enough, and rardta, forehead, instead of 
the later alam and laldta. The same peculiarity has been 
observed in ancient Iranian, and no valid objection can be 
raised against connecting the word Parthva of the cuneiform 
inscriptions (the classical Parthiva) with Pahlav. The Par- 
thians were Scythians or Turanians and so were the Pallas 
(Mallas) of India and their neighbours on the northern 
frontier of India. 
The power of the Parthians becoming supreme in Persia, 
the name became identified with Persia, and after the disap- 
pearance of the Parthian or Pahlavi kings the words Pahlavi 
assumed in course of time the meaning of ancient Persian 
and even of ancient. It is a curious coincidence that in the 
Dravidian languages also a word resembling Palla in form 
means old, in Tamil and Malayalam jmla, in Kanarese pale 
or hale, in Tulu para, etc. Under these circumstances I regard 
the Bra in Brahui as a contraction of Bara, and obtain 
thus in Barahui a name whose resemblance to that of the 
ancient Barrhai the modern Bhars, as well as to that of 
similarity of name and vicinity of geographical position the districts Parsia, 
Parsiana and Pnrsiene, the tribes of the Parnoi (Ai-saces and Tii-adates are 
said to have been Parnians), Parutai, Parsidai or Parsirai and Parsyetai and 
the mountain range of the Paropmnisos. 
According to the command of the king Sagara, the Tavniias shaved their 
heads entirely, the Sakas shaved the upper half of their heads, the Pdi-aiias 
wore their hair long, and the Pahlavas let their beai'ds grow. (See Hari- 
vamsa, XIV. 15-17). 
Sagarah svam pratijnam ca guror vakyam niSamya ca 
dharmam jagbana tesam vai vesanyatvam cakira ha. 15 
Arddham Sakanam siraso mundayitva vyasarjaj-at 
YavanSnam sirah sarvam Kambojanam tathaiva ca, 16 
Parada muktaklesasca Pahlavah smasrudharinah 
nissvadhaya vasatkarah krtah tena mahatmana. 17 
Compare also Vishnti, Purana of H. H. WUsou, edited by F. Hall, vol. 
Ill, p. 294. 
Bishop Cald-n-ell mentions that the practice of wearing long hair is 
characteristic of the Uravidians. (See Dinridian Groin mo r, '2nd edit., Intro- 
duction, p. 114.) Beards are also worn by many Di-avidian races. 
