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provinces were called, in tlie west, the And'/tra 

 JIbidus, ox Andre Indi, according to the Peutuigerian 

 tables, in which tiicy arc j^lacect along* the banks of 

 tlie Ganges. After the death of Pulima'x, the whole 

 country was thrown into confusion, according to 

 Deguigxes. Olonachun, one of the chief officers, 

 (perhaps Calyana'-chaxdka,) seized upon the 

 Gangetic provinces, and hearing that the embassa- 

 dors, from Taitsoxg, Emperor of China, to king 

 PuLiMAN, were coming with Hiuentse, the chief of 

 tht embassy, he sent troops to seize them: and 

 HiuEXTSE effected his escape, with mucli difficulty, 

 to Tibet ; where Yetsoxglcxgtsan, king of that 

 country, gave him an army, with which Hiuentse 

 re-entered the Gangetic provinces, defeated the 

 usurper, and took him prisoner. 



From the death of Pulimax we may date the fall 

 of the empire, though not of the kingdom, of 

 MagMha, OY sow\\\ Bahar, in the year 648. Tliere 

 were Maharajas, or Emperors, at Canoge, in Gia^ 

 jdrcit, and other parts of India. Anu-Gangam, or th.e 

 Gangetic provinces, was parcelled out, among several 

 petty kings, such as the kings of Magad'ha, (or 

 south Bahar •) JMaifhila (now Tirhoot ;) Sdceta 

 (Oude,) and Benares : the kings of Carna-des'a for- 

 merly ylnga (Cahxa-Daha'rva, in the latter end of 

 the twelfth century, was one of them). There were also 

 kings of Tamralipta (or Tamlook in Bengal,) and one of 

 them sent an embassy to China, in the year 1001 : 

 lie is styled king oVranmouielieoii, by the CJiinesc. 



The kings of Gaur became very powerful after- 

 wards, and even concjucred all the Gangetic pro- 

 vinces, at least as far as Benares. They assumed the 

 title o^ ]\Iahd-R/ij(is, even as late as the l^th century. 

 It was then, that the town of Gaur (or Gauda) 

 became .the first city of that part of India: and 

 this certainly accelerated the t?(\\ of Pali-pufra ; if it 



