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very young when he visited Alexander's camp, 

 could have no maiiiageable daughter at tliat time. 

 It is more probable, that Seleucus gave him his na- 

 tural daughter, born in Per.'iia. From that time, I 

 suppose, Chandragupta had constantly a large 

 body of Grecian troops in his service, as mentioned 

 in the Mudrd-Racshasa, 



It appears, that this affinity between Seleucus 

 and Chandragupta took place in tJie year 302 B.C. 

 at least the treaty of peace was concluded in that 

 year. Chandragupta reigned four-and-twenty 

 years; and of course died 9.9^2 3 ears before our era. 



III. After the decline, and ultimately the fall of 

 tlie imperial house of Nanda, and of the Bdli-puti^as^ 

 the most illustrious family that sat afterwards upon 

 the imperial throne of India, was that of the An- 

 d'rhas. From the Bali-piUras, the inhabitants of 

 the Gangetic provinces were denominated Fall-both' 

 ras and Pali-potras. : in the same manner they were 

 called, after the And'hras, the And'hra Indians ; 

 these are the Andre-Indi, which lived along the 

 banks of the Ganges, according to the Peutingerian 

 tables. 



The And'rha dynasty lasted 456 years : in the 

 Vdyu-Jyurcma, it is said 418; but some copies have 

 458. Be this as it may, the general opinion is, that 

 it lasted 456 or 458 years. These deducted from 

 648, there remains 192, or I90, for the year of the 

 inauguration of its first king, called Ba'lin, Balihi- 

 TA or Ba'leya, Csheshmaca, Stnd'huca, Sipraca, 

 SuDRACA, and Suraca. In the Cumdrica-chanda-^ 

 it is declared, that after 3300 years, save 10, of the 

 Cali-yuga Avere elapsed, a great king, called Su- 

 draca, would reign in CJidrchita : the name of his 

 metropolis is, however, omitted in many copies. 



