these keeps under arms 50,000 foot-soldiers, 4000[1] cavalry, and 400 elephants. Next come the Andaræ,[2] a still more powerful race, which possesses numerous villages, and thirty towns defended by walls and towers, and which supplies its king with an army of 100,000 infantry, 2000 cavalry, and 1000 elephants. Gold is very abundant among the Dardæ, and silver among the Setæ.[3]
- ↑ IV. M.—v. 1. III. M.
- ↑ The Andaræ are readily identified with the Andhra of Sanskṛit—a great and powerful nation settled originally in the Dekhaṇ between the middle part of the courses of the Godâvarî and the Kṛishṇâ rivers, but which, before the time of Megasthenês, had spread their sway towards the north as far as the upper course of the Narmadâ (Nerbudda), and, as has been already indicated, the lower districts of the Gangetic basin. Vide Ind. Ant. vol. V. p. 176. For a notice of Andhra (the modern Telingâna) see General Cunningham's Anc. Geog. of Ind. pp. 527-530.
- ↑ Pliny here reverts to where he started from in his enumeration of the tribes. The Setæ are the Sâta or Sâtaka of Sanskṛit geography, which locates them in the neighbourhood of the Daradas. [According to Yule, however, they are the Sanskṛit Sekas, and he places them on the Banâs about Jhajpur, south-east from Ajmir.—Ed. Ind. Ant.]
tled not far from the Upper Jamnâ. About the middle of the 7th century they were visited by the famous Chinese traveller Hiwen-Thsâng, who writes their name as Kiu-lu-to. Yule, however, places the Passalæ in the south-west of Tirhut, and the Kolubæ on the Kondochates (Gandakî) in the north-east of Gorakhpur and north-west of Sâran. The Abali answer perhaps to the Gvallas or Halvaïs of South Bahar and of the hills which covered the southern parts of the ancient Magadha. The Talucta are the people of the kingdom of Tâmralipta mentioned in the Mahâbhârata. In the writings of the Buddhists of Ceylon the name appears as Tamalitti, corresponding to the Tamluk of the present day. Between these two forms of the name that given by Pliny is evidently the connecting link. Tamluk lies to the south-west of Calcutta, from which it is distant in a direct line about 35 miles. It was in old times the main emporium of the trade carried on between Gangetic India and Ceylon.
