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It is no use entering into the pros and cons of the conclusions of Devadatta Bhandarkar. Those interested in this subject are requested to turn to the Amefa mentioned above.
The Homo Alpine theory for the origin of Firts, as advanced by Ramaprasada Chanda in his "Indo Aryan Races", too, cannot be flawless as it is based on the data furnished by Devadatta Bhandarkar in his "Foreign Elements in the Hindu Population." I have therefore passed over that theory also. Its are classified into seven divisions (vide Census of India 1901, Vol. IX, page 1) narnely asancı, fanamzi, ART, साठादरा, कृष्णारा, चित्रोडा and बायड. Of these, प्रश्नोराs even to-day profess themselves to be fears.
___ The term नागरखण्ड is a little confusing, नागरखण्डसप्तति ( in Dharwad district) means a group of 70 villages occupied by Angs. Similarly the anare of eggs in the Shikārpur Tālukā in the present Mysore territory is a tract of country peopled by नागरs; while in the नागरखण्ड of स्कन्दपुराण, खण्ड means a part or a portion of a work or treatise ( here qer).
