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Various are the opinions about Sa'liva'hana : in 

 general it is believed, that he did not die, but was 

 translated to heaven, being a ^Saca ; after having 

 retired, for many years, into the desert, to give him- 

 self up to heavenly contemplation. 



I have mentioned, that the Hindus represented 

 'Sa'liva'hana in his fifth year, exactly like our Sa- 

 viour in the first 3'ear of the Christian Era: it was 

 not in consequence of deep chronological investiga- 

 tions, that they seemingly attempted to correct the 

 mistake of Dionysius Exiguus, or the little ; but 

 because it was so in the Apocryphal Gospel of the 

 infancy of Jesus, or rather because it was the general 

 opinion in the east, that Jesus manifested himself to 

 the world at that age. Sa'liva'hana did not marry, 

 nor had he any offspring : for even in India, he is 

 looked upon as a mysterious, and supernatural being, 

 and called an Utpdta, or prodigy. 



I have thus arranged and brought together all the 

 information I could procure, concerning Sa'liva'- 

 hana, under that name, or any of his well known 

 titles, and as Kino; o^ Pratishtdna: for Sa'liva'hana 

 and that holy city are intimately related to each 

 other, and cannot be separated. Yet we find Sali- 

 va'hana sometimes leaving PratisKtdna, and going 

 to reside at Ujjain, after the defeat of Vicrama'di- 

 t\a; as in the legends relating to him, under the 

 names of Vi-Sama-'Sila, and Dhananjaya. It is 

 nearly the same with Vicrama'ditya, whose his- 

 tory is equally connected with Ujjihdn, or Ujjayiiii ; 

 I mean the real one, for there were several of 

 them. 



