doubts whether in the Mahâbhârata the name Chînas really does stand for the Chinese.* However whether they are to be identified with the Chinese or not, they would seem to belong to some where about the north-eastern quarter of India, whether on this side of the Himûlaya mountain or the further side. The Hûnas come next and these are probably to be identified with the White Huns,*| whose inroads into India are said to have occurred in the fifth and sixth centuries A D. They are mentioned in Kâlidâsa, and an expedition against them is stated in the Harshacharita*| to have been entrusted to Râjyavardhana, the elder brother of Harshavardhana, by his father who is himself also described as हूणहरिणकेसरी ।
Kaulûta appears in our play as the description of one of the confederates of Malayaketu. Professor Wilson says that the part of the country called Kulûta is not known. Since his time, how- ever, some evidence on the subject has become accessible. Kulüta is alluded to in the Kadambari,## and in Varâhamihira,*| and is mentioned by Hiouen-Tsang, apparently, as lying on the way from Jalandar to Mathurâ and Thânes'var.|| The modern name of the district is, according to Mr. Barooah, Kulu., $ and its precise position is indicated in the map which forms the frontispiece to General Cunnigham's Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, Vol. I. Malaya, if our reading here is correct, is the only southern locality alluded to in our play. It is near the southernmost extremity of the Western Ghâts.** Kâs'mir is the province which still goes under the same name and Saindhava, doubtless, means belonging
- Barooah's Dictionary, Vol. III., P. 114; see, too, Weber's History of Indian
Literature, p. 243; Yule's Cathry, Vol. I., p. xxxiv.; and Kern's Brihatsamhità in J. R. A. S., (N. S.), Vol. V. p. 73 (st, 61); and contra Max Muller, India: What it can teach us, p. 13; faith is mentioned inter alia by Kalidasa and Dandî . +| See as to the Hûnas, Raghuvoms'a, IV., 68; J.R.A.S., Vol. II, p. 283; Vol.V., (N. S.), p. 73; Cunningham'a Geography of Ancient India, p. 7; Fergusson's S'aka and other Eras, p. 21; and Indian Architecture, pp. 39, 726, and nole at p. xx. supra. As to their early history, see J. R. A. S. (N. S.), Vol X., p. 285. ++ P. 116. See p. 101. Chap. XVII., st. 29; J. R. A, S. Vol. XVII., p. 119. || Cunninghan's Geography of Ancient India, pp. 142-564; and Arch. Surs, Report, Vol. XIV., p. 120; see algo Indian Antiquary, Vol. VI., p. 339; J. A. S. B. Vol. XVII. p. 23. $ See Dictionary, Vol. III., p. 41-56.
- Sco Raghurains'a, Canto IV., st. 51; Canto V., st. 64. See, however, as to
Malaya Indian Antiquary VOL XIV p. 105, and as to Malaya and generally ibid p 320
