54 ORIGIN AND DECLINE OF THE 



case of Parlcshita, &c.* The difference between the 

 two eras of Vicrama'ditya and Saliva'hana, is 

 made here to be 145 years, according 1o the compu- 

 tation used all over the Dekh'm : for in the northern 

 parts of India, they reckon only 135. 



Kino- 'Aryya is the same with the Pra-Aryya- 

 s'iRA of the followers of Gautama in Siam, and 

 other countries to the eastward of it. This signifies 

 the mighty and venerable Sire, or chief of the 'Ary- 

 YAs or Christians : and with him Budd'ha wao-ed 

 war, as well as with his disciple Pra-Swana, thus 

 called because he loudly preached against the doc- 

 trine of Budd'ha. The Aryya-Ra'ja is also the 

 same with De va-Twashta' or De'va-Ta't, who was 

 crucified by order of Budd'ha. King 'Aryya was 

 succeded in the throne by Gopa'ditya, the grandson, 

 of king Yudhishthira, the immediate predecessor 

 of Preta'pa'ditya, who brought Vicrama'ditya 

 from distant regions to Cas'mir, and made him King 

 of that country. Preta'pa'ditya, and Vicrama'- 

 ditya are epithets synonymous, or very nearly so. 



Many learned Hindus, for several centuries past, 

 conceive that the eldest Vicrama'ditya was far 

 from being contemporay with Sa'liva'hana ; and of 

 course conclude, that he is not the famous Sacad'wi- 

 SHi or Saca'ri, that is to say the enemy of Sa'li- 

 va'hana ; and consequently they suppose, that Sa- 

 ca'ri must have been the epithet of some more 

 modern Vicrama'ditya. This notion is counte- 

 nanced certainly in several of the lists, which I have 

 produced ; and the author of the Raja'Tarangin'i ac- 



* See Rdja Tarangini, and the extract from it in the Aj/in 

 Acheri, histor)' of the Kings of Cashmir. 



