or BHARATAVARSA OR INDIA. 
Ill 
The Mars of Ajmere resemble the Bhils, and these again 
are not dissimilar to the Parheyas and Khonds. The Bhils 
TMs opinion does not appear to coincide with that expressed by Sir A. 
Cunningham in vol. XXI, p. 93 : " Still further to the south Ptolemy places 
the PhuUitae and the Kondali, whose country is described as Pars Phulli- 
" tarum. Phullitae I take to be a Greek name descriptive of the Parna, 
" Savaras, or 'leaf-clad Savaras,' one of the most powerful of the aboriginal 
"races in the early centuries of the Christian era. Their only to-mi was 
" Agara, which may perhaps be identified with Sagar," In H.T.Colebrooke's 
edition oi Atnamkosa, Serampore, 1825, p. 2.52, note j, we read : savarah or 
patramvarah, wearing feathers (a peacock's tail, &c.). A. Loiseleur Deslong- 
champs' French edition contains on p. 233 the same remark. In Bothlingk 
and Koth's Sanskrit Worterhuch, vol. IV, p. 417, stands ^siram'ara, " ein 
mit Fedem sich schmiickender Savara." Brhatsamhitd, XIV, 10, mentions* 
the Purikadasdrndh with saha nagnaparnasabaraih ; and Bothlingk calls 
ibidem, p. bli:ih.e Parnasavara, von Bliittern lebende Savara, i.e., Savaras, 
who live on leaves ; the term occurs also in Markandeya Parana. Some take 
Parna as the name of a people ; e.i/., Mr. N. Chidambaram Iyer, who 
translates this passage : Nagna, Parna and Sahara. It is possible that in this 
place three different tribes are enumerated, the Nagna (naked), the Parpa 
and the Sahara: for if two tribes, the Nagna-iabara and Parwa-sabara, 
i.e., the "naked Sahara" and the " leaf-Sabara," are only mentioned, 
in order to prevent any doubt on this subject, any other mode of expression 
would have been preferable to the use of the compound in the Instrumental 
Plural, i.e., to nagnaparnasabaraih. I ought also not omit to mention that 
the Sabardh occur ten times in the Brhatsamhitd, but only once in the quoted 
place in connection with either nagna or parna. To these remarks I join 
General Sir A. Cunningham's comments as contained in his 17th vol. pp. 127, 
128: "I think it probable that Colebrooke's reading of Patra Savaras is 
*' erroneous, as Varaha Mihira gives the name of Parna Savara, or leaf -clad 
" Savaras. Varaha places in the south-east quarter, in the territory of the 
" aborigines, the Purikas, the Dasamas, the " naked iSabaras, and the Parpa 
" Sabaras," and in the south the Sauris and Kirnas. The commentator, 
" however, takes these two names as one, or Sanri-Kirnas, who are probably 
" the people of Hwen Tsang's Kirna-Suvarna. Professor Kern thinks that 
the Parna Savaras are ' manifestly the Phyllitae of Ptolemy,' and he ex- 
" plains the name as ' feeding upon leaves.' But, as we know that the Juangs, 
" a cognate race, still wear leaves, it seems to me more probable that the 
"term means ' leaf-clad.' In other places Varaha speaks of the ' Savara 
"savages,' (IX, 15), the 'savage Sabaras and Pulindas ' (IX, 29), and 
" of various tribes of (Sffi«w savages (XXXII, 15). This last notice must 
" refer to more than the two tribes of Nagna Sabaras, or 'Naked Savaras, 
" and Parna Savaras, or ' Leaf-clad.' Both Amara and Varaha date about 
" A.D. 550." 
To my previous remarks, I only add that the term tpvXXtrai, as used by 
Ptolemy, cannot apply to the Sabaras, who are mentioned by him VII, 1 , 80 
near the Ganges ; that a word (puW^nai does, I believe, not occur in Greek, 
hough (pvWirris (m) and <pvX\'iTis (J) are used in the sense of <pi\Xivos, made of 
leaves ; that the Phyllitae are distinguished by Ptolemy from the Eandaloi 
