the Panjáb suggests that the vine theory is an after-thought. [374] Strabo's second explanation, the Bacchic pomp of their kings, can be more completely disproved. The evidence that neither the Malloi nor the Oxydrakai had a king is abundant. [375] That the Greeks knew the Malloi and Oxydrakai were called Bakkhikoi and that they did not know why they had received that name favours the view that the explanation lies in the Indian name Báhika. One point remains. Does any trace of the original Báhikas or Outsiders survive? In Cutch Káthiáváda and North Gujarát are two tribes of half settled cattle-breeders and shepherds whose names Rahbáris as if Rahábaher and Bharváds as if Baherváda seem like Báhika to mean Outsider. Though in other respects both classes appear to have adopted ordinary Hindu practices the conduct of the Bharvád women of Káthiáváda during their special marriage seasons bears a curiously close resemblance to certain of the details in the Mahábhárata account of the Báhika women. Colonel Barton writes: [376] 'The great marriage festival of the Káthiáváda Bharváds which is held once in ten or twelve years is called the Milkdrinking, Dudhpíno, from the lavish use of milk or clarified butter. Under the exciting influence of the butter the women become frantic singing obscene songs breaking down hedges and spoiling the surrounding crops.' Though the Bharváds are so long settled in Káthiáváda as to be considered aboriginals their own tradition preserves the memory of a former settlement in Márwár. [377] This tradition is supported by the fact that the shrine of the family goddess of the Cutch Rabáris is in Jodhpur, [378] and by the claim of the Cutch Bharváds that their home is in the North-West Provinces. [379] CHAPTER IX. THE CHÁLUKYAS (A.D. 634-740.) The Chálukyas conquered their Gujarát provinces from the south after subduing the Konkan Mauryas of Purí either Rájápurí that is Janjira or Elephanta in Bombay harbour. The fifth century Váda inscription of king Suketuvarmman proves that this Maurya dynasty [380] ruled in the Konkan for at least a century before they came into collision with the Chálukyas under Kírtivarmman. [381] They were finally defeated and their capital Purí taken by Chandadanda an officer of Pulakesi II. (A.D. 610-640). [382] The Chálukyas then pressed northwards, and an inscription at Aihole in South Bijápur records that as early as A.D. 634 the kings of Láta, Málava, and Gurjjara submitted to the prowess of Pulakesi II. (A.D. 610-640).