no ESSAY OS 



fcE'yA-swA'Mi, and visited the famous fort of S(/n- 

 cara-gj^iha, near the sea sliore, and saw there the 

 statues of Ra'ma and Ra'vaxa. I am also informal, 

 that this Carn'a had a daugiiter, who hved in one of 

 the royal seats near Colgojig ; and was seduced hv 

 the poet Chauda, whose works are still extant. I 

 have mentioned before, that the And'hra princes, who 

 ruled on the banks of the Ganges, are divided into 

 three classes, the dynasty of the genuine Axd'hkas, 

 consisting of nine kings : then the And'hra-jutiijas^ 

 or of the family of the Axd'hras: and lastly the 

 And'hra-bhrityas, or servants of the And'hra princes, 

 who seized upon the government. It is not an easy 

 matter to ascertain, whether the And'hra dynasty is 

 to be placed before, or after tlie Andlira-jdt'iyas. I 

 have placed it before, first to fill up a chasm in the 

 list of the emperors of /;?r//^; in the second place, it 

 is universally agreed, that the And'hra-biirityas 

 usurped the throne, immediately after the death of 

 Puloma, the last of the And'hra-jdhyas: and this 

 last circumstance is corroborated by the testimony of 

 Chinese historians, according to Mk. Deguigxes. 

 Besides, in the Brakmtuida, the And'hras and 

 And'hra-ja'ti'yas are considered but as one dynasty, 

 consisting of thirty-six kings, from which, sub- 

 tracing the nine And'hras, remain twenty-seven 

 kings, which is the exact number of kings in the 

 dynasty of the Axd'hra-jati'yas, resulting from 

 four lists compared together. 



Nothing is related of the kings of this dynasty, 

 except of tlie last, called PuLniAX, Puloma, Lo- 

 MA'Di, and PuLOMA'RCHHT, or Pulom'a the pious 

 Ri«Hi. He was a great con<jueror, and put an end 

 to his lifie in the holy stream of the Ganges. 



In an inscription found at Budd'ha-gdyd, and in- 

 serted in the first Volume of the Asiatic Researches, 



