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 212 KHE Dawalgaon was Dewal wári, from wári, a hamlet, and that of Dewalghit, Deodi. All over India the same terminology is found, and the same etymo- logy asserted. Bangalore is Bengaluru, the city of beans, from bengalu, a beant "But," says the writer referred to, "if this wordur or uri was nevercurrent in the ordinary speech of Upper India, the founder of the villages quoted above cannot possibly have known of it." But castra was “never current in the ordinary spech" of England, yet the founders of Lancaster, Chester, and a hundred others well knew its meaning. There is other evidence besides that previously adduced showing that these terminations are not Sanskrit. In Upper India, in the very birth-place of Hinduism, we find them, and we know that they cannot bave been derived from earlier Sanskrit names end- ing in pur, because we know the Sanskrit names, and they did not end in pur. Of the twelve oldest towns in the sacred land round Thanesur or the bank of the Saraswati which was the cradle of Hinduism, six have these terminations. One is Khairár, also called Ajainagar, another Pinjor called Adnitanagar, in the Vana Parva of the Mahabharata. Here it is evident that there can have been no elision of medial p or other metamorphosis, and the termination must have the independent Turanian origin suggested. I It is true the word uri or wára is not now generally used in Northern India except perhaps in its compound gauri, a grazing or cattle village; but that only shows that the race has either disappeared or adopted another language, just as the Celts now talk English and have abandoned the pre- fix Bally in their urban nomenclature. The question is of no importance because it is admitted that many of the races still existent in Upper. India are of Turanian origin, and unquestionably used this Turanian word for town, which is uri or wára. The only position which admits of argument is that their towns and names bave disappeared, and other towns founded and named by Arians have taken their place. The Bhars were not Hindus (vide the anecdote under article Bareli Antiquities), and almost all their towns, including their capi- tals, Bareli, Rudauli, whose foundation is fairly ascertained, exhibit these Turanian affixes. The Pasis' towns give similar results; their old capitals are Sandíla, Mitauli, Dhaurahra, sufficiently evidencing their Dravidian or Turanian connexion, which is also affirmed by tradition: Nothing can be clearer than that, to use Mr. Bowring's words :-—"On removing the thick crest of the Sanskrit element which adheres to the common vernaculars of Northern India, the substratum beara an affinity to the languages of the south-an affinity not very close, indeed, and greatly warped by the action of centuries, but still pointing to an early connexion between them." The history of the Agnikul or fire-born Chhattri clans, as the Chau- hán, the Cháwar, points to a non-Arian colonization, and if not. Arian - Page 165, 167, 185.
 * 1) Bowring's Eastern Heminisconces, pege 5.
 * Buwring's Eastern Experiences, page 282,