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bably too large, is yet moderate enough, compared 

 with their absurd accounts of the preceding ages ; 

 but they reckon exactly the same number of years for 

 twenty generations only in the family of Jarasandha*, 

 whose son was contemporary with Yudhishfhir, and 

 founded a new dynasty of princes in Magadha, or 

 Bahar-, and this exact coincidence of the times, in 

 which the three races are supposed to have been ex- 

 tinct, has the appearance of an artificial chronology* 

 formed rather from imagination than from historical 

 evidence, especially as twenty kings, in an age com- 

 paratively modern, could not have reigned a thou- 

 sand years. I, nevertheless, exhibit the list of them 

 as a curiosity, but am far from being convinced that 

 all of them ever existed ; that, if they did exist, they 

 could not have reigned more than seven hundred years, 

 I am fully persuaded by the course of nature and the 

 concurrent opinion of mankind. 



KINGS of MAGADHA. 



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20. 



Puranjaya, son of the twentieth king, was put to 

 death by his minister, Sunacfl, who placed his own 

 son Pradyoca on the throne of his master j and this 



