Alexander cunningum writes About Meghs.History of Meghs,Source Tara Ram Goutam.

कनिंघम महोदय की कलम से :  मेघ और उनका प्राचीन इतिहास।
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             Know your history-यहाँ नीचे Alexander Cunningham द्वारा  मेघो के इतिहास के बारे में और उनकी ethnology के बारे में "
             Archaeological Surve of India: four reports during the years 1862-63-64-65, volume-2 के पेज संख्या 11 से 13 का विवरण ज्यों का त्यों दे रहा हूँ।
यह रिपोर्ट गवर्नमेंट सेंट्रल प्रेस,शिमला से 1871 में प्रकाशित  हुई थी।
                                          Megs.
        "Connected with the Takkas by a similar inferiority of social position is the tribe of Megs, who form a large part of the population of Riyasi, Jammu, and Aknur. According to the annals of the Jammu Rajas, the ancestors of Gulab Singh were two Rajput brothers, who, after the defeat of Prithi Raj, settled on the bank of the Tohi or Tohvi River amongst the poor race of cultivators called Megs. Mr. Gardner calls them " a poor race of low caste," but more numerous than the Takkas. In another place he ranges them amongst the lowest class of outcasts ; but this is quite contrary to my information, and is besides inconsistent with his own description of them as " cultivators." They are but little inferior, if not equal, to Takkas. I have failed in tracing their name in the middle ages, but I believe that we safely identify them with the Mekei of Aryan, who inhabited the banks of the River Saranges near its confluence with the Hydraotes. This river has not yet been identified with certainty, but as it is mentioned immediately after the Hyphasis or Bias, it should be the same as the Satlaj. In Sauskrit the Satlaj is called Satadru, or the " hundred channeled," a name which is fairly represented by Ptolemy's Zaradrus, and also by Pliny's Hesidrus, as the Sanskrit Sata becomes Hata in many of the W. Dialects. In its upper course the commonest name is Satrudr or Satudr, a spoken form of Satudra, which is only a corrup tion of the Sanskrit Satadru. By many Brahmans, how ever, Satudra is considered to be the proper name, although from the meaning which they give to it of " hundred- bellied," the correct form would be Satodra. Now Arrian's Saranges is evidently connected with these various readings, as Satdnga means the '* hundred divisions," or " hundred parts," in allusion to the numerous channels which the Satlaj takes just as it leaves the hills. According to this identification the Mekei, or ancient Megs, must have in habited the banks of the Satlaj at the time of Alexander's invasion. In confirmation of this position, I can cite the name of Megarsus, which Dionysius Periegetes gives to the Satlaj, along with the epithets of great and rapid.* This name is changed to Cymander by Aoienus, but as Priscian preserves it unaltered, it seems probable that we ought to read Mycander, which would assimilate it with the original name of Dionysius. But whatever may be the true reading of Avienus, it is most probable that we have the name of the Meg tribe preserved in the Megarsus River of Dionysius. On comparing the two names together, I think it possible that the original reading may have been Megandros, which would be equivalent to the Sanskrit Megadru, or river of the Megs. Now in this very part of the Satlaj, where the river leaves the hills, we find the important town of Makhowal, the town of the Makh or Magh tribe, an inferior class of cultivators, who claim descent from Raja Mukh- tesar, a Sarsuti Brahman and King of Mecca ! " From him sprang Sahariya, who with his son Sal was turned out of Arabia, and migrated to the Island of Pundri; eventually they reached Mahmudsar, in Barara, to the west of Bhatinda, where they colonised seventeen villages. Thence they were driven forth, and, after sundry migrations, are now settled in the districts of Patiala, Shahabad, Thanesar, Ambala, Mustafabad, Sadhaora, and Muzafarnagar."* From this account we learn that the earliest location of the Maghs was to the westward of Bhatinda, that is, on the banks of the Satlaj. At what period they were driven from this locality they know not ; but if, as seems highly probable, the Magiaus whom Timur encountered on the banks of the Jumna and Ganges were only Maghs, their ejectment from the banks of the Satlaj must have occurred at a comparatively early period. The Megs of the Chenab have a tradition that they were driven from the plains by the early Muhammadans, a statement which we may refer either to the first inroads of Mahmud, in the beginning of the eleventh century, or to the final occupation of Lahor by his immediate successors. 3. Other
* Orljis DcsLTi1itio, V. 1145.
• Smith's Rcv1ning Family of Lahor, p. 232, and Appendix p. xxix. In the text he m.'iti* the " Tukkers" Hindus, but in the Appendix he calls the " Tuk" a " brahman caste." The two names are, however, most probably not the same. t Ibid, pp. 232, 201, and Appendix p. xxix.

Alexander cunningum writes About Meghs.History of Meghs,Source Tara Ram Goutam.