OF THE HINDUS. ?QJ 



Vtjhnu-furana 5 and in the Bhagawat, it is recorded, 

 that eight Grecian kings reigned over part of India. 

 They are better known to us by the title of the 

 Grecian .kings of Bactriana. Arrian in his Periplus, 



enumerating the exports from Europe to India, fets 

 clown as one article beautiful virgins, who were ge- 

 nerally lent to the market of Baroche. The Hindus 

 acknowledged that, formerly, they were not fo itrict 

 as they are at this day ; and this appears from their 

 books to have been . the cafe. Slrabo does not pofi- 

 tively lay that Chaiidra-Gupta- married a daughter of 

 Seleucus, but that Seleueus cemented the alliance he 

 had made with him by connubial affinity, from which 

 ex predion it. might equally be inferred that Seleucus 

 married a daughter of Chandra-Gupta ; but this is 

 . t fo likely as the other ; and it is probable the 

 daughter of Seleucus was an illegitimate child, born 

 in Periia after Alexander V conquelt of that country. 



Before I conclude, it is incumbent on me to ac- 

 count for the extraordinary difference between the line 

 of the Surya Varfas or children of (he fun, from 



':l : ceacu to Dafar atlia-Iiama , as exhibited in the fe- 

 cond volume of the Ajlatick Re/ear r lies , from the Vij/i- 

 nu-purana and the llhagaveat, and that fet down in 

 the Table I have given with this Eilay. The line of 

 the Surya Far/as, from the Bhagawat being abfolutely 

 irreconcileable with the anceftry of Arjuna and 

 Chrijhna, I had at nrffc rejected it, but, after a long 

 fearch, I found it- in the Ramayen, fuch as I have " re- 

 prefented it in the table, where it perfectly agrees 

 with the other genealogies. Dafaratha-Rama was con- 

 temporary with Paraju Rama, who was, however the 

 el deft ; and as the Ramayen is the hiftory of Dafara- 

 t//a-Rama y we may reafonably fuppofe, his anceftry 

 was carefully fet down and not wantonly abridged. 

 I fhall now conclude this Eifay with the following 

 remarks : 



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