I56 AN" ACCOUNT OF THE SCULPT! 



■• The Ton of BjIcc was Bamdclcra^ who is repre- 

 44 fori ted as a <riant with a thoufand hands. A 

 44 the fon o r . . , - .me to his court in difguife, and 



44 feduced his daughter, which produced a war. in the 

 44 courfe of which was taken pnfoner. and 



44 brought to M •• upon which K une 



44 in perfon from his capital, D .. and laid iV ge 



44 to the place. Sib guarded the gates, and fought for 

 44 BanJchcrcx. who worfhipped him with his thoufand 

 44 hands: but Kr:picn found means to overthr: 

 44 and having taken the city, cut off all B 

 6< hands, except two, with which he obliged him to do 

 44 him homage. He continued in fubjection to Krijhen 

 u till his death ; after which a long period enfued, in 



iich no mention is any where made of this p.. 

 44 till a prince arofe, whofe name was JA . who 



44 reftored the kingdom to great fplendor, and en- 

 64 larged and beautified the capital." But in his time 

 the calamity is faid to have happened bv which the 

 city was entirely deftroyed; and the caufe and man- 

 ner of it have been wrapt up bv the Braynins in 

 the following fabulous narration. 44 M fay 



they.) in an excurfion which he made one day alone, 

 44 and in difguife, came to a garden in the environs 

 44 of the citv, where was a fountain fo inviting, that 

 44 two celeftial nymphs had come d 

 64 there. The Rajah became enamoured of one of 

 44 them, who condefcended to allow of his attachment 

 44 to her; and fhe and her fitter nymph ufed the: - .. . - 

 44 forward to have frequent interviews with him in 

 44 that garden. On one of thofe occafior . 

 44 brought with them a male inhabitant of I . 

 pons, to whom they introduced the 1 

 t4 and between him and if . n a ftri: . :hip 



44 enfued; in confequence of which, be : the 



4 * Rejatii e^rneft requeft, to carry him ir 

 44 fee the court of the divine JrJrr, a favo.. 

 44 fore granted to any mortal. The . 



oni thence with new ideas of fplendor and r: - 



44 : 



