(lxxii. ) but Bihari Lal Mita has concern only with those who came eastwards, and settled down in the plaias of India. In the Vedas, altithra was changed into Mikra; and the sun-god was associated with Agni the god of fire and Waruna the god of water. All Kayas. thas, he thinks, care the descendants of the sunworshippers who came from Persia Fe further supports this theory by Sastric records which make Chitrar-Gupta the progenitor of the Kayastha race. Chira-gupta in the Hindu mythology is the elerk of Yama, the king of the nether regions, whose duty it is to register the good and bad deeds of mortals upon earth, according to which they are rewarded or punished after death. Bihari Lal Mitra, however, gives a different interpretation to the word Chitragupta, viz, he who paints in secret, meaning the sun because sun is the cause of colour. Thus in the tradition of the Kayasthas having been descended from Ohitra-gupta he finds support to his theory that they originally came from the west and belonged to the same race of fire-worshippers a remnnat of which is still to be found in the Parsis of Gujrat. Behari Lal Mitra then makes the history of his race take a wide leap, and coming to a later age lays, hold. of a man named Kusa who, emigrating from the west, established the town of Kausamba in the Fanjab. In the Ramayana time the descendants of this man, called the Kausikas wele classed as Brahman, but in the opiuion of Rehari Lal. Mitra, the four-fold division of the Aryan settlers in
