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mountains, was involved with his party in the general 

 conflagration ; a puniihment inilicTed, it is iuppoled, 

 for his having inadvertently wounded the foot of *Dur- 

 vJ/as with an arrow. The death of Aramu happened 

 three hundred years after the Flood, according to the 

 fur/mas *, as noticed in a former efl'ay on Egypt, 



Chandra-Gupta, or he who was faved by the inter* 

 polition of Lzmus or the Moon, is called alio Chandra 

 in a poem quoted by Sir William Jones. The 

 Greeks call him Sandracuptos, Sandracottos, and Andro- 

 cottos. Sandrocottos is generally ufed by the hiitori- 

 ans of Alexander ; and Sandraeuptos is found in the 

 works of Aihenaas. Sir William Jones, from a poem 

 written by Somade-va, and a tragedy called the corona- 

 tion of Chandra or Chandra-Gup t a J f, difcovered that 

 he really was the Indian king mentioned by the h'ljlo- 

 rlans of Alexander, under the name of Sandracottos. 

 Thefe two poems I have not been able to procure; but, 

 I have found another dramatic piece, intitled Mudra- 

 Rdcjhafa, or the feal of Racfliafa, which is divided into 

 two parts : the firit may be called the coronation of 

 Chandra-Gupta, and the fecond the reconciliation of 

 CJ>andra-Gupta with Mantri-RdcjTiafa, the prime rni- 

 niucr of his lather. 



The hifiory ox Chandra -Gupta is related^ though in 

 few wordSj in the Viflmu-purmia, the Bhagawat, and 

 two other books, one of which is called Brahateatha, 

 and the other is a lexicon called Camandaea : the two 

 fait are fuppoled to be about fix or (even hundred 

 titers old. 



* EfTay on Egypt, in the Aj'ut. Rtf. vol. III. p. 3S« 

 . ■ Refearehes, vol. IV. p. 0. 11. 



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