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also, that she was with child by him, and that the 

 name of the child was to be Vicrama'ditya : that 

 her maid was with child also, and that the name of 

 the child should be Bhartri-hari. He then left 

 his wife, who resolved to die ; and, ripping up her 

 own belly, she took out the child, and intrusted it to 

 the care of a Malini, or the wife of a gardener, or a 

 flower woman. ' Go,' said she, ' to some distant 

 place, and there remain concealed ; because my father 

 will attempt to destroy the child.' The Mdlini went 

 to Ujjaijinl, with the maid ; and from the signal pre- 

 servation of the child, in that city, it was also 

 called Avanti, from the Sanscrit ava, to preserve. 



In the Agni-purana, the father of the damsel is 

 called Sadasvas'ena, in the Bhavishya-pKraria Va- 

 sud'ha': Ferishta says that his name was Basdeo; 

 whom he represents as emperor of India, and re- 

 siding at Canouge ; but the author of the Vicrama- 

 Upachyana says that he was a powerful prince, in the 

 west of India, and possessed of the countries which 

 we find, afterwards, constituting the patrimonial 

 territories of the Balahara, which included Gurjja- 

 rasht'ra (or Gujjarat,) with some adjacent districts. 

 In the Ayin-Acberi he is called Sudhrowsheneh, 

 and at Ujjayini, Sundersexa, according to Dr. 

 Hunter, who says that this incarnation took place 

 in the time of that prince * This is obviously the 

 history of Yesdejird, son of Bahram-Gor, orBAH- 

 RAM the ass, king of Persia: the grand features are 

 the same, and the times coincide perfectly. The 

 amours of Bahram-G6r, with an Indian princess, 

 are famous all over Persia, as well as in India. Ac- 

 cording to D'herbelot, there is still a romance in 

 Persian, called the amours of Bahram and G\jl- 

 Endam, the Indian princess. 



* Asiat. Researches, Vol. VI. p. 35. 

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