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Cashviere was freed from an inundation, by which 

 it had been covered, a certain Knshup brought the 

 Brahjuois to irihabit the new land ; that after a long 

 time a general assembly of the inhabitants M'as called, 

 who elected a man celebrated for his virtue to be 

 their king ; and that from thenceforward monarchy 

 Iv as established in that delightful region. The name 

 of the first successor to this king, that is mentioned, 

 is OwxGUXD, who was contemporary with Kisiien. 

 From OwxGuxD to KorADEVv, the last native 

 ruler, this history reckons \59 princes; and Kota- 

 DEVY v/as succeeded by a Alahommtdan prince 

 Shumsheddeen in the year of the Hegira 74i2, or 

 of our vulgar 5Pra 13+i'. The history makes these 

 15.9 princes to ha\ e reigned an astonishing length 

 of time: but we have no number of years assigned 

 for the r^ign of any of the first fifty-three princes, 

 nay, eighteen only of them are at all named : of the 

 next fift3^-three princes, we find one reigning 300 

 }ear8, and the others on the whole an incredible 

 length of time. In such a case the safest ride is to 

 take the last three dynasties as a guide, and these 

 give us fifty-two princes in 504 years and some 

 months, v. hich is not quite ten years to a reign, 

 and that is as much as ought to be admitted among 

 eastern dynasties, where oppression always paves 

 the way for revolt, M'here the line of succession is 

 not cleaily defined, and where an old uncle in most 

 cases supplants the infant ncj^heu'. On this suppo- 

 sition of ten years for a rciirn, Owxguxd and 

 KisHFX will ]}e placed in tiie year before Maijom- 

 MED 870, or before Chiust 'J4S. Now the Brah- 

 rneju: X'dkQn to CVm7/?72c;'6' by Kl'shup could not be 

 tliC Brahnii'ii sect of priests, as they cultivated tlu 

 Ciirth, kind vv'ere the<jnly inhabitants of the country : 

 but they must have been one of the Brachman na- 

 tions, several of whom, according to Pl ivy, were 

 dispersed over India*; and these again, I conjecture^ 

 aic tilt: s;inie with the Biamma of the Rahdns, sup- 

 posed 

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