Himalayan and Vindhyan chains.

1042 Videha was a district in the province of Behar, the ancient Mithila
or the modern Tirhoot.

1043 The people of Malwa.

1044 "The Kasikosalas are a central nation in the Vayu Purana. The
Ramayana places them in the east. The combination indicates the
country between Benares and Oude.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Kosala is a name variously
applied. Its earliest and most celebrated application is to the
country on the banks of the Sarayu, the kingdom of Rama, of which
Ayodhya was the capital.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} In the Mahabharata we have one Kosala in
the east and another in the south, besides the Prak-Kosalas and
Uttara Kosalas in the east and north. The Puranas place the Kosalas
amongst the people on the back of Vindhya; and it would appear from
the Vayu that Kusa the son of Rama transferred his kingdom to a more
central position; he ruled over Kosala at his capital of Kusasthali
of Kusavati, built upon the Vindhyan precipices." WILSON'S _Vishnnu
Purana_, Vol. II. pp. 157, 172.

1045 The people of south Behar.

1046 The Pundras are said to be the inhabitants of the western provinces
of Bengal. "In the _Aitareyabrahmana_, VII. 18, it is said that the
elder sons of Visvamitra were cursed to become progenitors of most
abject races, such as Andhras, Pundras, Sabaras, Pulindas, and
Mutibas." WILSON'S _Vishnu Purana_ Vol. II. 170.

1047 Anga is the country about Bhagulpore, of which Champa was the
capital.

1048 A fabulous people, "men who use their ears as a covering." So Sir
John Maundevile says: "And in another Yle ben folk that han gret
Eres and long, that hangen down to here knees," and Pliny, lib. iv.
c. 13: "In quibus nuda alioquin corpora praegrandes ipsorum aures
tota contegunt." Isidore calls them Panotii.

1049 "Those whose ears hang down to their lips."

1050 "The Iron-faces."

1051 "The One-footed."

"In that Contree," says Sir John Maundevile, "ben folk, that han but
o foot and thei gon so fast that it is marvaylle: and the foot is so
large that it schadeweth alle the Body azen the Sonne, when thei
wole lye and rest hem." So Pliny, Natural History, lib. vii. c. 2:
speaks of "Hominumn gens {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} singulis cruribus, mirae pernicitatis ad
saltum; eosdemque Sciopodas vocari, quo