300 LieuL-Colonel Tod on the Religious Eskiblishmenls of Mewar. 



of the land of Vrij, the country of the Suraseni, comprehending the terri- 

 tory round Mat'hura for a space of eighty miles, of which he was unjustly 

 deprived in his infancy by liis relative Kansa. From its vicinity to Delhi 

 we may infer, either that there was no lord paramount amongst the Yadiis 

 of this period, or tliat Crishna's family held as vassals of Hastinapura, then 

 with Indraprest'lia, or Delhi, the chief seat of Yadu power. There were two 

 princes named StJRAsiiN amongst the immediate predecessors of Crishna : 

 one, his grandfather, the other eight generations anterior. Which of these 

 was the founder of Siirapur on the Yamuna, the capital of the Yadiis of 

 Vrij, we know not, but we may fairly assume that the first gave his name 

 to the region around Mat'hura, described by Arrian as the country of the 

 Suraseni. Alexander was in India probably about eight centuries after the 

 deification of Crishna, and it is satisfactory to find that the inquiries he 

 instituted into the genealogy of the dynasty then ruling on the Yamuna 

 correspond very closely with those of the Yadus of this distant period, and 

 combined with what Arrian says of the origin of the Pandus, it appears 

 indisputable that the descendants of this powerful branch of the Yadus 

 ruled on the Yamuna, when the Macedonian erected the altars of Greece on 

 the Indus. Arrian enumerates the names of Budaeus (BsSvai/) and Cradevas 



the ocean from Dharatkhund (A), where he passed a hundred years before he went to heaven. In 

 Samvat 937 (A.D. 88]) God decreed that the Hindu faith should be overturned, and that the Tu- 

 rishka (c) should rule. Then the jezeya, or capitation-tax, was inflicted on the head of the 

 Hindu. Their faith also suffered much from the Jains and the various infidel [asura) sects which 

 abounded. The Juins were so hostile that Bkimii A manifested himself in the shape of Sancara 

 Achauya, who destroyed them and their religion at Benares. In Guzcrat, by their magic, they 

 made the moon appear at Amavus (d). Sancara foretold to its prince, Sid Raj (e), the flood 

 then approaching, who escaped in a boat and fled to T'hoda, on which occasion all the Vedyas (f) 

 (magicians) in that country perished." 



(b) The channel which separates the island of Dwarica from the main land is filled up, except 

 in spring-tides. I passed it when it was dry. 



(c) We possess no record of the invasion of India in A.D.881, by the Turki tribes, half acentury 

 after Mahmoun's expedition from Zabulist'han against Chitore, in the reign of Rawul Khoman. 



id) The ides of the month, when the moon is obscured. 



(<?) He ruled Samvat 1151 (A.D. 1095) to S. 1201 (A.D. 1145). 



(f) Still used as a term of reproach to the Jains and Buddhists, in which, and other points, as 

 Ari (the foe, qu. Aria ?), they bear a strong resemblance to the followers of the Arian Zerdusht, 

 or Zoroaster. Amongst other peculiarities, the ancient Persian fire-worshipper, like the present 

 Jain, placed a bandage over the mouth while %vorshipping. 



