148 S. 0. Vidyabhusana —Licchavi race of ancient India. [No. 2, 
were much prevailing there. Since the 7th century A.D. there have 
taken place in India so many reconstructions of the ancient castes, made 
partly on the principle of ethnological, partly philological, partly socio¬ 
religions and partly political and other divisions that it is at present 
impossible to discover a single drop of Licchavi blood in India, without 
the help of chemical analysis. It has already been said that Vai^ali, in 
which the Licchavis lived in ancient days, corresponds to modern Basarh 
in the Muzaffurpur district. They gradually dispersed over different 
places in the districts of Goruckpore, Shahabad, Champaron, etc. It is 
therefore not altogether improbable that some of the people of the military 
caste of these districts may bear some remote relationship to the Liccha¬ 
vis of old. Writers of Indian history have not yet made even mention 
of the Licchavi race in their respective works. The present paper of 
mine, though extremely meagre, will, I hope, serve to draw the attention 
of scholars to the investigation of the history of this once most powerful 
race of India. 
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