130 ESSAY ON 



The next VrcuAMA'DiiYA, and whose history is 

 best known all over Lidiay was the son of Garuda- 

 >5HA RUPA, or he with the countenance of an ass; 

 and an account of him is given in the Vicrama-upa- 

 chyancij or first section of the Sinhasana-dwatrin- 

 s'ati. 



The next Vicrama'ditya was the famous king 

 Bhoja, who recovered the Sinhasana, and going to 

 tlie JVhite island, dived into the infernal regions, 

 where he saw the apartments of Crishxa, or Visiixu; 

 and close to them those of Bali, who received him 

 kindly, and bestowed upon him the title of Vicra- 

 ma'ditya; and his son, called Jaya'naxda, was 

 stiled also Vicrama'ditya. According to others, 

 Jaya'nanda was only either the adopted son, or 

 the son-in-law of Raja-Bhoja, having married his 

 daughter Biia'nu-mati. 



The principal feature of the history of these Vi- 

 crama'dityas, as I observed before, at whatever 

 period they lived, is their quarrels with a certain 

 king, called Sa'liva'hana, with the title of NrIsin- 

 HA, Na'ga-cuma'ra, Na'ge'ndra, &c. except one, 

 who is introduced as contemporary with Muha^imed, 

 and waging war against him, and his followers, the 

 Mahabhatadkas. Even in the time of Jaya Chan- 

 dra, the last emperor of India, we find, in Persian 

 recordsj a 'Sa'lba'han, king of Dilli: and in the 

 district of Budhaon, in that province, there is a small 

 town, the capital of a Pergannah of the same name, 

 called Cote-Sdtbahan, or the fort of 'Sa'lba'han, and 

 said to have been built by him. 



The chief authorities, after the Vicrama-chai^ilray 

 and the other books I have mentioned before, are the 

 last sections, or rather supplements to the Agni and 

 Bhavishya-piiran'aSy the list of the kings of Mdlwd, iu 



