A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ast of the Gogari, Prachi ( theeastern), where dwelt the Prasii of the Greeks. The principalrivers of tlie Deccan are the Narmada (Nerbudda) and the Tapti,which empties into the (iulf of Cambay. The remaining river-systems flow out from the Ghaut mountains, h-ing near the coastsof Canara and INIalayavai-a (^Malabar), and flow eastward; viz., theMahanadi, whose delta begins at Cuttack, and on whose southernmouth is situated Puri, the site of the festival of Jagannath (Jugger- 298 INDIA IN ANTIQUITY. naut) ;
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ast of the Gogari, Prachi ( theeastern), where dwelt the Prasii of the Greeks. The principalrivers of tlie Deccan are the Narmada (Nerbudda) and the Tapti,which empties into the (iulf of Cambay. The remaining river-systems flow out from the Ghaut mountains, h-ing near the coastsof Canara and INIalayavai-a (^Malabar), and flow eastward; viz., theMahanadi, whose delta begins at Cuttack, and on whose southernmouth is situated Puri, the site of the festival of Jagannath (Jugger- 298 INDIA IN ANTIQUITY. naut) ; the Godavari (anciently, ^Nlaesolus); the Krishna (Kistna),which flows into the ocean at j\Iasnlipatani; and the Kaveri, whosemouth is at Turangavari (Tranquebar). Tlie population of India, numbering 2I»4,000,()U0, and compris-ing nearly a fourth of mankind, is composed of distinct may be grouped as Aryan and non-Aryan ; and the latter maybe again subdivided into the Tibeto-Burman tribes, the Kolarian, orMunda tribes, and the Dravidian tribes. The Til)eto-Burmans clingy. Fig. 84. — The Ganges at Gangotri. to the skirts of the Himalayas and their northeastern offshoots. Aportion of the Munda tribe is still found in the Vindhya mountains,in central India, where the people live under primitive conditions,without knowledge of metals. With other kindred dark peoplesof Southern Asia, they ap})ear to be the original inhabitants, whowere driven out of the plains into the mountains by those who camein at a later day. Their religion is fetish worship; their clothing islimited to that which is most necessary. To them belong the Kols THE RACKS OF INDIA. 299 (ill Sanskrit Kolala, swine-slayers), who inhabit the highhmd insouthern Behar, northwest of Calcutta. In Assam, also, on the con-fines of Farther India, dwell their kindred, the Khamti. The liamu-sees, who dwell to the iiortli of (loa, between Bombay and Surat, andthe Varali, southeast of Daman, speak the Sanskrit langu
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