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from place to place ; these in especial they look upon as 
constituting their flocks and herds ; by their aid they wage 
their wars, and fight in defence of their territories. Strength, 
age, and size, are the points usually considered in making 
choice of these animals. 
In the Ganges there is an island of very considerable 
size, inhabited by a single nation; it is called Modoga- 
liuga.^^ Beyond the Ganges are situate the Modubse, the 
Molindae, the TJberse, with a magnificent city of the same 
name, the Modresi, the Preti, the Calose, the Sasuri, the 
Passalae, the Colobae, the Orumcolse, the Abali, and the Tha- 
lutae. The king of the last-named people has fifty thousand 
foot- soldiers, four thousand horse, and four hundred armed 
elephants. We next come to a still more powerful nation, 
the Andarae,^^ who dweU in numerous villages, as well as thirty 
cities fortified with walls and towers. They furnish for 
their king one hundred thousand foot, two thousand horse, 
and a thousand elephants. The country of the Dardse^^ is 
the most productive of gold, that of the Setae of silver. 
Eut more famous and more powerful than any nation, not 
only in these regions, but throughout almost the whole of 
India, are the Prasii, who dwell in a city of vast extent and 
of remarkable opulence, called Palibothra from which cir- 
cumstance some writers have given to the people themselves 
the name of Palibothri, and, indeed, to the whole tract of 
country between the Ganges and the Indus. These people 
keep on daily pay in their king's service an army, consisting of 
six hundred thousand foot, thirty thousand horse, and nine 
thousand elephants, from which we may easily form a con- 
jecture as to the vast extent of their resources. Behind these 
Inhabited, probably, by a branch of the Calingse previously mentioned. 
Ansart suggests that this may be the modern kingdom of Pegu. He 
thinks also that the preceding kingdom may be that now called Arracan. 
These may possibly be the Daradrse of Ptolemy, but it seems impos- 
sible to guess their locality. 
^0 Probably the present Patna. D'Anville, however, identifies it with 
Allahabad, while Welford and Wahl are inclined to think it the same as 
Eadjeurah, formerly called Balipoutra or Bengala. The Prasii are pro- 
bably the race of people mentioned in the ancient Sanscrit books under the 
name of the " Pragi " or the Eastern Empire, while the Gangarides are men- 
tioned in the same works under the name of " Gandaressa" or Elingdoin of 
the Ganges. 
