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Bhittriy after him ; and which is to the eastward 

 of the mouth of the river Gomti. There are the 

 remains of a pretty large fort, with the ruins of his 

 pahice. Near it is a stone pillar, with an inscription, 

 containing only a few couplets from the Mahd-Bha- 

 rata : it is however remarkable, on account of the 

 curious connexions of the letters. 



Beino: obliged to oo often to Benares, he raised 

 an artificial hiil, at some distance from the northern 

 banks of the little river Bur?id, to the north of the 

 city, exactly in the shape of the hill of C//z^;/^/r, on 

 which he resided. It is a work of great magnitude ; 

 and near it is a small village, called, from that cir- 

 cumstance, Pdhdr-pur, or Hill-burgh. 



In the lists of the kings of Gzvalior, both MSS. 

 and printed, it is declared, that Su'rya-se'na, or 

 Su'rya-pa'la, called also So'ma-pa'la, built the fort 

 of Gzvalior, in the year 332 of Vicrama'ditya, by 

 whom we niust understand the son of Bamram- 

 Go'r; and thus, the building of this famous citadel 

 took place in the year 773; and probably, on ac- 

 count of the astonishing progress of the IVIusulman 

 invaders, on the banks of the Indus. The kings 

 of that country resided at a place called Cdnti or 

 Cdntipura (now Coticall, nine cos to the north of 

 Gwalior, according to Lieut. Wilson's information). 

 The origin of this little kingdom is mentioned in 

 the prophetic chapters of the l^dT/'u^ Brahmdnda and 

 Vishnu-purdn'as : but the latter is more explicit, on 

 this subject, than the others. After the death of 

 Pulo'ma', in 648, there appeared, in Anu-Gangam, 

 or thtGangetic provinces, a king, called Vis'vas'pha- 

 tica, or VisVa-s'phurji ; who drove away the Brdh- 

 mens and Cshettris, and raised to that dignity persons 

 of the lo\\ est classes. Alter liim came the Ndgas 

 or NdcaSf who divided among themselves Anu-Gdng- 



