THE KINGS OF MAGADHA. 91 



• It appenrs, that the Sunacas and Si-sunacas were 

 two liraiiches of the same family : the first sat on 

 the throne l^S j^ears; but the sum of the reigns, in 

 both dynasties, amounted to 362. Maha'-xanda 

 and the SuMA'LyAL-iCAS reigned only 40 years, in- 

 stead of 100: and the whole may stand thus cor- 

 rected, from the first year of the CciH-yuga, down to 

 1 000 "^ the accession of Chand-ragupta, or 315 

 362/ 

 40 >years B. C. There are 52 generations and 



1402 Jreif^ns mixed together, to fill up that space, or 

 about 31 years for one reign ; which calculation is 

 too large. These different computations of the era 

 of the Cali-yuga from tlie Puran:is. with the several 

 corrections which the}^ are susceptible of, I th-ought 

 of the greatest importance to lay before the learned. 

 In the two accompanying lists, the numbers, parti- 

 cularly in the beginning, are obviously too large, 

 either for generations or reigns, and of course they 

 must be rejected. It is remarkable, that these num- 

 bers are pretty regularly decreasing, from 98 for a 

 reign, in the beginning down to Vicrama'ditya, to 

 three or four years. This regular decrease is equally 

 inadmissible. 



The first king of MagacVa was Jara'-Sand'ha ; 

 for that country began to be known under that 

 name in his time, being before denominated C'lcata. 

 But Jara'-Sand'iia was not the first king aiC'icata; 

 his ancestors had ruled over it for many generations, 

 at least from the time of YRtriADRATiiA, or Vrihat- 

 Rat'ha ; from whom the whole dynasty, as far down 

 as Puranjaya, or Ripunjava, is denominated the 

 dynasty of the Barhadrafhas, in a derivative form. 

 They were descended from Purlt, the fifth son of 

 Yaya'ti, the son of Naiiusha. V/e are told in 

 general, that Yayati divided his empire, tiie whole 

 world, amongst his five sons. To P^'RU, the youngest 



