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before Vicrama'ditya, a portion of my own essence. 

 1 have now generated thee in the character of Tri- 

 VicRAMA to destroy the wicked; and ultimately thou 

 wilt be Vicrama'ditya again ; and, when thou diest 

 in that last character, thou wilt be re-united to me. 

 This alhides, according to the learned, to the two 

 Millef?nhmis of Vicrama'ditya. This legend is a 

 little obscure, and the compiler seems to have jum- 

 bled together the legends of Vicrama'ditya and Sa- 

 LivA'HANA ; though of the latter no mention, by 

 name at least, be made. 



As Vi-SAMA-s'iLA was at first king o^ Pratishfamiy 

 he was, of course, the same with Sa'liva'han'a ; 

 and the first part of the legend has an obvious refer- 

 ence to him in that character. Vicrama-cesa'ri 

 appears to be the S'ri'-Carn'a-deva -Ra'ja -Vi- 

 crama, with the title of A'ditya, who dethroned 

 his sovereign, taking advantage of his infirmities; 

 and this Vicrama-ces'art, in the third story of the 

 Vetala-panchavmsati is declared to be king of Pd- 

 tali-putra-bhii-mandalam, or country and region of 

 Pdtali-Jmtra, as every body knows : and his wife's 

 name was Cha^tdra-prabha'-magadhi, being a na- 

 ti ve of Magadha. 



It is said, in some legends *, that three male 

 chikhen were born the same day : one, the son of a 

 Brdhmcn, the second, a Cslicttri, and, the third, a 

 Vaisya : some add a fourth of the Siidra tribe. It 

 was foretold, that one of them would become king, 

 or, at least, remain so without being molested, if a 

 king already ; but not before the two others had been 

 put to death. The Brdhmcn, hearing of this, easily 

 circumvented the Vaisya, who was a Taili, or oil- 

 man, with whose body he wanted afterwards to per- 

 form a most abominable sacrifice to Vetdla, or the 



* In the Bhoja-praband'ha. 



