Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c20.4
Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarát c20.4
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Ktesias (c. 400 B.C.) learnt in Persia that a race of Pygmies lived in India in the neighbourhood of the silver mines, which Lassen places near Udaipur (Mewar). From the description of these Pygmies (Photios. Bibl. LXXII. 11-12) it is evident that they represent the Bhils. Ktesias also mentions (Photios. Bibl. LXXII. 8) that there is a place in an uninhabited region fifteen days from Mount Sardous, where they venerate the sun and moon and where for thirty-five days in each year the sun remits his heat for the comfort of his worshippers. This place must apparently have been somewhere in Marwar, and perhaps Mount Abu is the place referred to.