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 137 taming elephants. They employ these animald in ploughing and for riding on, and regard them as forming the main part of their stock in cattle. They employ them in war and in fighting for their country. In choosing them for war, regard is had to their age, strength, and size. There is a very large island in the Ganges which is inhabited by a single tribe called M o d o- g a 1 i n g 8e.§ Beyond are situated the Mo d ub ae, M o 1 i n d 86, the U b e r ae with a handsome town of the same name, the Galmodroesi, Preti, C a 1 i s s 8e,|| Sasuri^ Passalae, Colubm, Orxulee, Abali, Taluct ae.^ The king of § vv. 11. modo Gralingam, ModogaHcam^ II Calissae. — v. 1. Aclissse. •jf These tribes were ctiefly located in the regions between the left bank of the Ganges and the HiraAlayas. Of the Galmodroesi, Preti, Calissse, Sasuri, and OraralsB nothing is known, nor can their names be identified with any to be found in Sanskyit literature. The ModubsB represent beyond doubt the Moutiba, a people mentioned in the AitoiArSya BrAhmana along with other non- Aryan tribes which occupied the country north of the Ganges at the time when the Br&hmans established their first settlements in the country. The Molindse are mentioned as the Maladain the Pur&nic lists, but no further trace of them is met with. The UbersB must be referred to the Bhars, a numerous race spread over the central districts of the region spoken of, and extending as far as to Assam. The name is pro- nounced differently in diflferent districts, and 'variously written, as Bors or Bhors, Bhowris, Barriias and Bhftrhiyas, Bareyas, Baoris, Bharais, &c. The race, though formerly powerful, is now one of the lowest classes of the population. The Fa8sals9 are identified as the inhabitants of PanchSla, which, as already stated, was the old name of the Dodb. The ColubsB respond to the K&ultita or KolAta— men- tioned in the 4th book of the Rdmd|/ana, in the enumera- tion of the races of the west, also in the Vardha SaiiMIA in the list of the people of the north-west, and in the Indian drama called the Mud/ra Edkshasa, of which the hero is the well-known Chandragupta. They were set-