VIGRAMADITYA AND SALIVAHANA. Igl 



informed him also, that this child, named Sa'la- 

 VA HANA, had attained the age of five years ; and 

 that his grandfather had made numberless clay 

 fisures of soldiers to amuse him. 



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Vicrama'rca marched at the head of an army; 

 but the protecting snake came to the assistance of 

 the child, and inspired the figures of clay v/ith life, 

 who started up as able warriors, attacked Vicra- 

 ma'rca and his army, and defeated him. >Sa'la- 

 VA HANA cut off iiis head, and flung it into Ujjayini^ 

 that his death might be known to all the world, 

 The queen vi^as delivered in that very month of a 

 male cliild ; after which she burned herself with the 

 head of her lord, wlio was re-united to the Supreme 

 Being. Whilst the granriees of the state were as- 

 sembled to place the child upon the imperial throne, 

 a voice from heaven declared, that as the child was 

 bom after the death of his father, he could not suc- 

 ceed to the en'pire of India, but only to the throne 

 of Malax a ; and the same voice ordered the Sinhd- 

 Sana, or the imperial throne, to be buried in a secret 

 place. 'Sa'la-va'hana, who was a learned and 

 pious man, became a Aluni, and withdrew to desert 

 places, to give himself up to devout contemplation. 

 Major Mackenzie informs us, that in the chrono- 

 logical list, Vicrama'rca is declared to have reigned 

 only 944 years; and in another, that it was only his 

 dynasty or empire which is said to have lasted so 

 long. 



The learned of the western parts of India, whom 

 I had an opportunity to consult, assured me, that the 

 fiisi- Millenium ended about the beginning of the 

 ChiiSiian era, ind the second Millenium, when the 

 Musulmans penetrated into the more inland parts of 

 India ; probably under Maumood, about the year 

 1000 of our era. 



