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race itself has been an ethnological mystery. Various attempts have been made to classify the Brahuis with the Dravidians, the Scythians, the Tatar Mountaineers, the Arabs and the Iranians. Some derive the word from the Persian 'Ba-rohi' caning ‘of the hills'. Others say it is connected with the eponym Braho or Brahin i. e., Ibrahim. Sometimes they are said to have relationship with the Jats or the Jadgal (Jagdal) consisting of the three tribes—the Mengals, the Bizangos and the Zehris. The Zaghar Mengal, a superior division of the Mengal tribe, believe they had come from a district called Zughd, somewhere near Samarkhand in Central Asia. "Men' without the 'gal' appears in the lists of Behistun inscriptions as the name of a tribe deported by Darius, the Achaemenian, for their turbulence. Sajdi, a Brahui tribal name, and Saga the name of a class of that tribe, are