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 138 thpse keeps under arms 50,000 foot- soldiers, 4000* cavalry, and 400 elephants. Next come the Andar8B,t a still more powerful race, which possesses numerous villages, and thirty towns de- fended hy 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 D a r d ee, and silver among theSetfie.J tied not far from the Upper Jamnft. About the middle of the 7th century they were visited by the famous Chinese traveller Hiwen-Thsfing, who writes their name as Kiu- In-to. Tule, however, places the Passalse in the south-west of Tirhut, and the Kolubsd on the Kondochates (Gandaki) in the north-east of Gorakhpur and north-west of S&ran. The Abali answer perhaps to the Gvallas or Halva'ls of South Bah&r and of the hills which covered the southern parts of the ancient Magadha. The Taluctsa are the people of the kingdom of Tamralipta mentioned in the Mah&bhdrata. In the writings of the Buddhists of Ceylon the name appears as Tamahtti, corresponding to the Tamluk of the present day. Between these two forma of the name that given by Pliny is evidently the connect- ing 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 emx>orium of the trade carried on between Gangetic India and Ceylon. « IV. if.— V. 1. III. M. t The AndarsB are readily identified with the Andhra of Sanskrit — a great and powerful nation settled originally in the Dekhan between the middle part of the courses of the God&vari and the Krishi)i& rivers, but which, before the time of Megasthen^s, had spread their sway towards the north as far as the upper course of the Narmadfi (Ner- budda), and, as has been already indicated, the lower districts of the Gangetic basin. Vide hid. Ant. vol. V. p. 176. For a notice of Andhra (the modern TeUngSna) see General Cunningham's Anc. Oeog. oflnd. pp. 527-530. X Pliny here reverts to where he started from in his enu- meration of the tribes. The Setse are the S&ta or S&talnsi of Sanskrit geography, which locates them in the neighbour- hood of the Daradas. [According to Yule, however, they are the Sanskrit Sekas, and he places them on the Ban&s about Jhajpur, south-east from Ajmir. — Ed. Ind. Ant] Digitized by Google