VICRAMADITVA AND SALIVAHANA. 17$ 



Thus, from that famous expiation, to the end 

 of Bha'rata's dynasty, there are 312 years, ending 

 the year preceding the first of the Cliristian era: but 

 according to the Ciunancd-chanda, this expiation 

 took place 310 years B. C. and the difference is 

 tritHno;. 



'• Then," says the compiler of the appendix to 

 the Agm-puran'a, " at Pratislit'ana in the Deccati, 

 through the mercy of S iva, will appear \Sa'liva'- 

 HANA, Mahd-bcdi, great and mighty; Dlmrmutmd^ 

 the soul and spirit of righteousness and justice; Sa- 

 tyuodca^, his word truth itself; Anasuycwaj free from 

 spite and envy; Tlajyam-uttamam-critaxdn, whose 

 empire will extend all over the world; Nara-vdhana, 

 the conveyer of souls (to places of eternal bliss) : 

 and he will reign 84 years." 



Nara-vdhana signifies literally the conveyer of 

 men, which is here the same thing ; for the idiom 

 of the Sanscrit language will hardly admit of our 

 saying conveyer of souls. Thus Christ is repre- 

 sented by the Jilanicheaiis, when they call him 

 iinimaj'um I'ector in majore navly the conveyer of 

 souls in the lar^-cr boat. 



" Then will come Nara-va'haxa (in the Bka- 

 vishi/a pwVm'a^Ri-si ^ ha) who \v\\\ reign 100 years." 

 Nara-va'hana and Nri-sinha arc two well known 

 epithets of 'Sa'liva'hana, and they have been pro- 

 bably introduced here in order to enable the com- 

 piler to bring in 100 years to answer his purpose. 

 What induces me to think so, is the passage imme- 

 diately following, " Then will appear Nara- 

 va'hana and Vansa'vali." In the Aym-Acberi*', 



* Subah Maluali. 



