The ignorance of the family of Mewar of the fact would by no means be a conclusive argument against it, could it be otherwise substantiated; but the race of Surya was completely eclipsed at that period by the Lunar and new races which soon poured in from the west of the Indus, and in time displaced them all. Footnote 2.4.18: Ajamidha, by his wife Nila, had five sons, who spread their branches (Sakha) on both sides the Indus. Regarding three the Puranas are silent, which implies their migration to distant regions. Is it possible they might be the origin of the Medes? These Medes are descendants of Yayati, third son of the patriarch Manu; and Madai, founder of the Medes, was of Japhet’s line. Ajamidha, the patronymic of the branch of Bajaswa, is from _Aja_, ‘a goat.’ The Assyrian Mede, in Scripture, is typified by the goat. [These speculations are worthless.] Footnote 2.4.19: Of this house was Draupadi, the wife, in common, of the five Pandava brothers: manners peculiar to Scythia. Footnote 2.4.20: King of Delhi. Footnote 2.4.21: [Briggs i. 57. The accounts of the size of the city are extravagant (Elphinstone, _HI_, 332 note; Cunningham, _ASR_, i. 279 ff.).] Footnote 2.4.22: An inscription was discovered at Kara on the Ganges, in which Yaspal is mentioned as prince of the realm of Kausambi (_As. Res._ vol. ix. p. 440). Wilford, in his Essay on the Geography of the Purans, says “Causambi, near Alluhabad” (_As. Res._ vol. xiv.). [The site is uncertain (Smith, _EHI_, 293, note).] Footnote 2.4.23: [Rājgīr in Patna District.] Footnote 2.4.24: