﻿144 ON THE CHRONOLOGY 



lowing table, supplying the word about or nearly (since 

 perfect accuracy cannot be obtained, and ought not to 

 be required) before every date. 



. If we take the date of Buddha's appearance from 

 Abu'Ifazl, we must place Abhimanyu 2368 years be- 

 fore Christ, unless we calculate from the twenty kings 

 of Magadha % and allow seven hundred years, instead 

 of a thousand, between Arjun and Pradyota, which 

 ■will bring us again very nearly to the date exhibited 

 in the table ; and, perhaps, we can hardly approach 

 nearer to the truth. As to Raja Nanda, if he 

 really sat on the throne a whole century, we must 

 bring down the Andhra dynasty to the age of P icra- 

 maditya , who with his feudatories had probably ob- 

 tained so much power during the reign of those princes, 

 that thev had little more than a nominal sovereignty, 

 which ended with Chandrabija in the third ox fourth 

 century of the Christian <era ; having, no doubt, 

 been long reduced to insignificance by the kings of 

 Gaur, descended from Gopala. But, if the author of 

 the Dabistan be warranted in fixing the birth of 

 Buddha ten years before the Caliyug, we must thus 

 correct the Chronological Table : 



