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says. His successor was Ciiandra-s'f.n'a, wlio 

 reigned 50 years: then came Su'rya-si/na, who 

 leigncd S5, and died of course 135 years after Vi- 

 cram'aditya. S'urya'-s'ena seems to be a corruption 

 for Su'rva'nsa, or 'Sri-su'rya'nsa, another name 

 for 'Sri- Sa'liva'hana, as I shall shew in the next 

 essay : and, like 'Sa'liva'hana's death, his is placed 

 exactly in lS5th year of Vicrama'ditya's e?Yi, and 

 the same number of years after his death, and in 

 the year 676 of the Christian era. But it does by 

 110 means follow, that there existed at that time a 

 prince called either Sa'liva'hana or Su'rya'nsa ; 

 but what we can reasonably conclude is, that his era 

 Av^as introduced at that time, and finally prevailed. 

 *' Then," says our author, (under the reign of his 

 successor SactI-s I NHA, and in the room of Vicra- 

 ma'rca, the Saca-handhi,) " 'Sa'lavaiiaxa will be 

 chief of tlie \Saca, or sacred period ;" or, in other 

 words, his era ^\■iii prevail over that of Vicra'- 



MARCA. 



ViCRAMARCA'T paraiii chaiva \*5aca cartta bhavlshyati. 

 'Sa'lava'hana nchnnaivaprasiikrham punarasya tu. 



Then, after Vicrama'rca, Salavaiia'na will be 

 the makei" (/aler) of the S'ac/i. 



The lamous Bhoja was tlie son of Ra'ja-six- 

 DULA, and born unto liim in his old age. When 

 he died, his son being a minor, and only eight 

 years old, his uncle Munja, whose name is often 

 Avritten Punja, was therefore intrusted with the 

 rcgeiicy. 



Munja wrote a geographical description, either 

 of the world, ov of India; which still exists, under 

 the name of Alunja-prati-desd-vijavastha, or state of va- 

 vlous countries. This voluminous work was afti'rwards 



