Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c48.s6.9

c48.s6.9

§ 84. The largest and most widely spread of the tribes of the Central Belt is the Gōṇḍ, a title which like that of Kōl, has been extended to a number of almost distinct communities. Some authorities trace the name to Koṇḍa, the Telugu for hill, as in the case of the Kond or Kand tribe, and they certainly cover the hill-country from Orissa westwards, with a strong northern settlement in the Sātpura and the south-west of the Chūtiā Nāgpur plateau. It has been already pointed out that their language approximates to the Kanarese rather than to the adjacent Telugu, but there is little or no tradition of their earlier wanderings. The Rāj-Gōṇḍ, who pushed up the Narbadā and Kaimur, established a strong dominion on the ruins of the Gauli dynasties, though it seems that they were in the