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 KovRvaia, 1 875.] SKETCH OF TEE EATHlS. m SKETCH OF THE EATH1S. ESPECIALLY THOSE OF THE TREBB OF KlIACilAU AND SOUSE OF CHOTTLA. BY HU0B J If. W.T*i is, BH3LTJKAOAR, DURING the celebrated strife between the KauraviB aud Panda vas, when the latter were travelling- incognito, during thethir- twmth rear of their ban' tiro Eanmrsji, by way of discovering their enemies, wont about harassing cow*, bo an to induce the Pun davas to declare theioMdves by waning to protect them. How their device succeeded t* detailed in the Mah&hhdraia. Now Karon, thn son of fturya by Kntitr^Tnflthcr of the Panda vas, wrna ah ally of thy Knurorns, and hn undertook to bring to aid them the best cattle-lifters in the world. This K was the flrsfc to bring tin? K I h i s into Hindu- stAn* and accordingly whan hu came i Kuumvos' ftid he brought with him Tlif -vvn tribes of the K At liie. vi? <h Pat gar, (8) P I n d nr A. (3) S I r« d, (4) 8 1 1 1 , (5) lIAn- jariA.(O) | Mt ,-k r i I, and (7) (iaribaguli*. These seven are the original EAthis, and all the modern tribe* are sprung from their intermar- riage with BAjpnt tribes ; thus the intermar- riage with the W AlAs gave rise to the great so Iv tribe of the StiAkUAyattf.in which ore Included the thnv tribe* of W A 1 k . K h A o h ar, and E b u in A n : the intcrmarriago with the It A t h o d a erf the L) h A n d h a 1 tribe guve rise to the DhAndhals; and fair in- termarriage with tlio J h a I As founded the tribe of K b n w a d .* Those original K a t h 1 a, oc- enmpanyine; tHo Knnnivas, lifted the rattle of V i- A t, the modern I > h o I n k A , and after the defeat of the Eanravas Rattled m the province i>f MAlwA, on Dlfl banks of the river Chomoi. v Vritlrikatn. of the Swar r coming from AyuJIiyAnagari. is aaid to hate (1 ,|,, Irfngdom or MAndavngndh in M,,Uv.; some awwnU reprfleont him to h»ra brought with him to lallwi the seven of ,';,, I this account appears tbo more prelsible of the two, V r i 1 1 r i k e t n was succeeded on the flmmo  rsaMra and reigned at WaU. They were accompanied by the M $& tribaa, who. however, leaving Sauritabirn, went to Eaohh, and there founded the kingdom of PA war. rhore they remained for many years. One year therm was a great famine, and Yishalo, tho head of tlir* Patgar triba, with his tribe and many other K tthm, came to SaurAshtra, and lakitnr their flocks ndft into the B a r a d A mountains remained there. V i»l i illo bimsel frame to E A I A w a d (now under Jfnvauagar) ml bafli a hm (or hamlot) tbera. At thin Kaon D h A u W A I A was w-igning in Wat A ChamArdi. OuftOf aSs 60ns, by name VerAwnlji, went on a pilgrimage to DwArkA, and cm bia roturu JoOfDej ioilted at KAIAwad, where he accidentally saw RuptVlde, the bcautifal daughter of Viyhfllo Patgar, and, being enamour- ed of her, he asked her hand of her ' marriage. Her father, VisbAlo, agreed on condi- hnn that VerAwidji should beoome a KAthl. and VerAwnifi ennfienting was married with great pomp to the beantifnl Rnpalde. Verawalji was now outcuatcd by his brethren, and ever aflar resided amongst Hifl EU^Ufl, TKp following katsit is Raid regarding tins marriage ?— ^T^ IK ^T^TW II WQ ^51T?T ^7 || WIRIT T4 ^ II T*T AT "PR IE ^ WWT 0T" II ^ST 1 »TTlt «^ II oxn4 im w&Ftfi II ^r ^t«kt mrt^i h «rnnw f^pFr ymj^uj || q^ic «(iU^T vls^-Tcii II It is written that in Samvat 1240, in the month ashikh, t half, Ou Tuesday the second day of the month, at ibu commencement of four quarters* The drums were boating loudly and the woa reedy in all. Having kept Kanehodrni wt heart, he who was victorious over the foor qnartera of The great sauyA wn» returning home, and so came to KAIAwad: hs all-knowing Verawnl, son of DhAn. ried at the bouse of ViahAlo Patgar. Though in quoting Ibis poetry I have ret theorigiii.il word*, via. Samvat I2K I incli think that it should be Samvat I4-W, becanso is good reason to doubt that the ParmArs of M u I i settled tham before the fifteenth cent ur> SaAvat, and, as *fll be showo hereafter, they were at this timn holding itn li. gadh, near the site of the modern Bhtij. w • Solsa^Atasi J0-«4iE JalllS, kW md of Hafpfldw*, who u-rrirf. KitbtW.