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an account of the emperors of the west in India, of 

 whom little or no notice is taken in the Purarias. 

 The chief object of the compilers seems to be to esta- 

 blish the chronology of the western parts of Indiay 

 since the expiation of Cha'nacya, clown to the death 

 of Pithaura', and Jaya-Chandra, in the year 

 1 192. The three first lists are nearly the same, and 

 probably they were originally so; and as the-list of 

 the emperors of the west in India, in the Ayin-Achcriy 

 is one of them, it is obvious, that above two hun- 

 dred years ago, they were considered, by the Pan- 

 dits who assisted Abul-Fazil, as authentic docu- 

 ments. 



The fourth list is from a work entitled Vansavali, 

 or the genealogies; but more commonly called llaja- 

 vati, or reigns and successions of kings. It was 

 written in the year 1659, by Ra'ja Raghuna'tha,. 

 of the Cacfihwa tribe, at the commantl of Aureng- 

 ZEBE. This has been translated into all the dialects 

 0^ India, and new modelled, at least twenty different 

 ways, according to the whims and pre-conceived 

 ideas of every individual, who chose to meddle 

 with it. 



It is, however, the basis and ground-work of mo- 

 dern history among the Hindus ; as in the KhuLdset- 

 ul Tu'wdric, and the Tadkerdtiissaldtin. The latter 

 treatise is a most perfect specimen of the manner of 

 writing history in India; for, excepting Raguu- 

 na'th's listj almost every thing else is the production 

 of the fertile genius of the compiler, who lived 

 above a hundred years ago. In all these lists the 

 compilers and revisers seem to have had no other 

 object in view, but to adjust a certain number of 

 remarkable epochs. This being once efi'ected, the 

 intermediate spaces are filled up with names of kings 

 not to be found any where else, and, most probably, 



