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Greek, which is lost: but from the few fragments 

 remaining, it appears that it was nearly the same 

 with that of NoNNUS, and lie intitled liis work Bas- 

 sarica. These two poets had no comnmnication 

 with India; and they compiled their respective 

 works from the records and legendary tales of their 

 own countries. Nonnus was an Kgyptian, and a 

 Christian. The Dionysiacs supply deficiencies in the 

 Mahd-Bharata in Sanscrit ; such as some emigra- 

 tions from India, which it is highly probable took 

 place in consequence of this bloody war. 



Jara'-Sand'ha erected a Jaya-sthamha or pihar of 

 victory at Benara. According to tradition, it was 

 destro3^ed by the Musulmans, and the capital, the 

 only remains of it, has been shewn to me. It stood 

 near the Ganges, at the Gaiit, or landing-place of 

 Jara'-Sand'ha, as it is called to this day. These 

 pillars are pretty numerous along the banks of the 

 Ganges, and most of them are of very gieat anti- 

 quity. They were known to the Greeks, who called 

 them the pillars of Bacchus. 



The accession of Chan'dra-gupta to the throne, 

 and more particularly the famous expiation of Ci-ia- 

 NACYA, after the massacre of the Sumdlj/as, is a fa- 

 mous era in the Chronology of the Hindus ; and 

 both may be easily ascertained from the Furmias, and 

 also from the historians of Alexander, In the year 

 328 B. C. that conqueror defeated Porus ; and as he 

 advanced*, the son of the brother of tliat prince, a 

 petty king in the eastern parts of the Panjdb, fled at 

 his approach, and went to the king of the Gangaridce, 

 who was at that time king Nanda of the Purdnas. 

 In the Mudrd-rdchasa, a dramatic poem, and by no 

 means a rare book, notice is taken of this circum- 

 ^ stance. There was, says the author, a petty king of 

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* Diodor. Sic. lib. XVII. c. SI. Airiau also, 6c c. 



