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known to Muselmans. This remarkable coincidence 

 of historical facts, legendary tales, and also of times, 

 in my humble opinion, cannot be merely accidental. 



Those, who acknowledge, that there are four Vi- 

 CRAMAS, always consider Sa'liva'hana as one of 

 them, and assert that he had of course a famous 

 bard at his court called CALii:)A'SA. Thus, when cal- 

 led VicRAMAuiTVA, hc always appears alone as 

 King of PratisKtdna, and as such he is represented 

 in the appendix to the /Igni-purana. This is the fa- 

 .nious King of Pratislitana, with the title of 'Tri-Vi- 

 CRAMA, or with the triple energy, as we have seen 

 before: hut his real name was Vi-Sama-'Sila, or 

 simply Sama-'Sila. As Pratishtdna is acknowledged 

 to belong exclusively to 'Sa'liva'hana, as Ujjayini 

 does to Vicrama'ditya, whatever King, called Vi- 

 CRAMA, OR Vicrama'ditya, is represented as sove- 

 reign of Pratish'tana, the same is 'Sa'liva'hana : 

 and, when we find a Vicrama'ditya said to have 

 lived or reigned eighty-four years, him we must con- 

 clude to be 'Saliva'hana, according to the learned 

 Pandits, aiid astronomers, who gave me this informa- 

 tion. 



There was a King at that time called Vicramami- 

 TRA, the seventeenth from Chandragupta, accord- 

 ing to the Bhdgavat, Brahmdrida, Vdyu and Vishnu- 

 Piirdn'as ;* and Vicramamitra or Vicramitra, 

 as it is erroneously spelt, is synonymous with Vicra- 

 ma'ditya or Vicram'arca ; and that Vicramami- 

 tra was intended for Vicrama'ditya, by the com- 

 pilers of the Purdn'as, admits of no doubt, for they 

 say, that his father was Ghosha-raja, who was the 

 same with Gandharupa, as we have seen before. 



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