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throne a man of the Maurya race, named Chandragupta, the un- 

 doubted Sandrocottus of the Greeks, who thus, with very little 

 deviation from the Sanscreet orthography, have written the name 

 of that sovereign. This important event, the reader will observe, is 

 fixed by Sir William, to have taken place in the year 1502 before 

 Christ, but the true date of which he will hereafter perceive, by a 

 more recent statement of the same author, to be nearly twelve 

 hundred years later ; an anachronism from which no blame what- 

 ever can be attached to Sir William, who only states the absurd 

 details of the Brahmins, but which shakes to pieces the laboured 

 fabric of their exaggerated chronology, and gives to the whole the 

 appearance of an Arabian tale. To the ten kings who formed the 

 Maurya dynasty, on the throne of Magadha, succeeded an equal 

 number of the Sunga line ; to these, four of the Canna race ; and, to 

 them, twenty-one sovereigns of the Andhra family, the line ending 

 in Chandrabija, when it became extinct, and the Magadha throne 

 seems to have been subverted. Empire then travelled southward, 

 and we find seven dynasties established in the Deccan, of which 

 seventy-six princes are recorded to have reigned one thousand 

 three hundred and ninety-nine years, but their names alone, and 

 not their history, are there inserted. With these seven more recent 

 dynasties, however, we have no immediate concern, as they flou- 

 rished posterior to the Christian aera. On the whole, we may justly 

 conclude the history of the Avatars and of these most early dynasties 

 in the words of our author, who, after affirming that the most 

 authentic system of Hindoo chronology, which he had been 

 able to procure, terminated with CHANDRABIJA, adds, " Should 

 any farther information be attainable, we shall, perhaps, in due time 

 attain it, either from books or inscriptions in the Sanscreet language ; 

 but, from the materials with which we are at present supplied, we 

 may establish as indubitable the two following propositions ; that the 



