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and Sa'la-va'hana is more generally denominated 

 Sa'lt-va'hana. Palipotra, or Palibothra, according 

 to DioDORUs the Sicilian, was built by the Indian 

 Hercules ; whose real name, according to Cicero, 

 was Belus from Bala, or Balas. His son was 

 better known under the name of Balt-putra ; as the 

 founder of Patna, under that of Pa'tali'-putra, or 

 the son of the Goddess Pa tali': Angada, his sir- 

 name, was given to him from the country o^ /higa^ 

 which had been allotted to him. Thus Mogad'ha 

 takes its name from the sage Mag a, who settled 

 there. These three cities Avere to be destroyed by 

 water, and this is true of Maha-hali-voram near 

 Madras, and of PdU-putra on the Ganges : the third 

 is yet existing in the province of Bede?^ in the Penin- 

 sula, and its name is Bali-griha, or Bdli-pura. It is 

 more generally known under the name of Muzaffer- 

 ndgar. It is not far from Cundana-pura, where king 

 Bhishmaca resided, and was the father of Rucmant, 

 Crishna's legal wife. Cundana-pura is generally 

 mistaken io\ Bdli-gr^iha, on account of its vicinity; 

 and, of course, supposed to have been built by Bala ; 

 and it is but lately that I have been able to rectify 

 this mistake. The descendants of this Hercules, 

 says DiODORUs, did nothing, which deserved to be 

 recorded : in this agreeing with the Paurdn'ics, 

 The kingdom was restored to the posterity of old 

 Sand'ha, who ruled there, for a long time, under the 

 name of the Va'rhadrat'has, or children of 

 Vrihadrat'ha. 



These are not then the Ba'li-putras, or Pa'li- 

 BOTHRi kings, who sate on the throne of Magad'ha, 

 in the time of Alexander, and his successors. 

 Before the conclusion of the great war, the conquerors 

 gave various districts to their friends. Duryo'd'hana 

 gave the district, about Bhagidpoor, to his friend 

 Carna. Crishna, long before, had given the 

 country, now called Bhoja-pura^ to his friend and re- 



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