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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[DECEMBER, 1884.
68. Between Mount Båttig ô and Adei- the Sanskrit Bhadravati, a name, says Yule, famed sath ro's are the Sôrai nomads, with these in the Epic legends, and claimed by many cities. towns :
Cunningham, he adde, is disposed to identify it
with Sangamarta .....................1339 21°
the remarkable remains (pre-Ptolemaic)
discovered at Bhardod, west of Réwa. Sora, the capital of Arkatos 130° 21° 69. Again to the east of the Vindhya
70. Beyond these is the country of the range is the territory of the (Biolingai or)
Pôrouaroi with these towns :Bolingai, with these towns :
Bridams .......... .......... 134° 30' 27° 30' Stagabaza or Bastagaza ......133° 28° 30 Tholoubana ..................... 136° 20' 270 Bardaốtis ........................137° 30 28° 30'
Malaita ........... ..........136° 30' 25° 50 Sôra designates the northern portion of
71. Beyond these as far as the Ouxentos the Tamil country. The name in Sanskrit is
range are the A de isa throi with these Chola, in Telugu Chola, but in Tamil Sora towns : or Chöra. Sora is called the capital of Ar. Maleiba ...
..140° 27° 20° katos. This must be an error, for there can be Aspathis...........................138° 30 250 20 little doubt that Arkatos was not the name of a Panassa ........ ........137° 40' 24° 30' prince, but of a city, the Árkád of the present day.
Sagoda, the Metropolis ......133° 23° 30 This is so suitably situated, Caldwell remarks, as
Balantipyrgon ... ........136° 30 23° 30' to suggest at once this identification, apart even from the close agreement as far as the sound is Pôrouaroi (Porvaroi):-This is the fa. concerned. The name is properly Ar-kad, and mous race of the Pauravas, which after the means the six forests.' The Hindds of the place time of Alexander was all predominant in Rajas
regard it as an ancient city, although it is not thana under the name of the Pramaras. The mentioned by name in the Puranas (Drav. Gram., race figures conspicuously both in the legendary Introd. pp. 95, 96). There is a tradition that the and real history of the North of India. It is inhabitants of that part of the country between mentioned in the hymns of the Veda, and freMadras and the Ghâts including Årkad as its quently in the Mahabharata, where the first kings centre were Kusumbars, or wandering shepherds, of the Lunar race are represented as being for several centuries after the Christian era. Pauravas that reigned over the realms included Cunningham takes Arkatos to be the name of between the Upper Ganges and the Yamuna. The a prince, and inclines to identify Sôra with later legends are silent concerning them, but Zora or Jora (the Jorampur of the maps) an they appear again in real history and with fresh old town lying immediately under the walls of distinction, for the gallant Pôros, who so intre. Karnul. The Sôrai he takes to be the Suari pidly contended against Alexander on the banks (Geog. p. 547).
of the Hydaspês, was the chief of a branch of Biolingai or Bolin'gai:-Ptolemy has the Paurava whose dominions lay to the west transplanted this people from their proper seata,
of that river, and that other Pôros who went on which lay where the Aravalt range slopes west- an embassy to Augustus and boasted himself to ward towards the Indus, and placed them to the be the lord paramount of 600 vassal kings was also east of the Vindhyas. He has left us however | of the same exalted lineage. Even at the present the means of correcting his error, for he makes day some of the noblest houses reigning in them next neighbours to the Pôrvaroi, whose different parts of Rajasthân claim to be descended position can be fixed with some certainty. Pliny from the Pauravas, while the songs of the national (lib. VI, c. XI) mentions the Bolingae and locates bards still extol the vanished grandeur and the them properly. Acoording to Panini, Bhaulingi | power and glory of this ancient race. Saint-Martin was the seat of one of the branches of the great loontes the Pôrouaroi of the text in the west of tribe of the Salvas or Salvas.
Upper India, in the very heart of the Rajpat Stag a baza:-Yule conjectures this may be country, though the table would lead us to place Bhdjapur, which he says was a site of extreme them much farther to the east. In the position antiquity, on the upper stream of the Btw, where indicated the name even of the Porouaroi is are remains of vast hydraulic works ascribed to found almost without alteration in the Purvar aking Bhôja (J. 4. S. Beng. vol. XVI, p. 740). of the inscriptions, in the Pôravars of the Jain To account for the first part of the name staga he clans, as much as in the designation spread every. suggests the query: Tataka-Bhoja, the tank 'or where of Povars and of Pouars, forms variously lake' of Bhoja P
altered, but still closely approaching the classia Bafda otis:- This may be taken to represent Paurava. (étude, pp. 857 sqq.)
