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most virtuous and powerful prince, and king of the 

 country of Sdma-7idtlia, or Gujarat'. Pilfai was 

 his prime minister, and at his command, wrote the 

 famous testament of Hushenk, still existing in 

 Persian. In the present list, Di-Saca or De'va- 

 'Saca is declared to have heen a Yadu by birth, and 

 of this tribe was Cri'shxa. Masoudi, who ^vrote 

 about the year 947, and liad been in India, throws 

 some light, in his golden meadows, upon the time in 

 which De'va-Saila lived. 



" The dynasty of Phour, who was overcome by 

 Alexander, lasted 140 years: then came that of 

 Dabschelim, which lasted 120 years. That of 

 Yalith was next, and lasted 80 years; some say 

 130." (Yalith is a strange name, and the nearest 

 proper name to it in Hindi, is Ja'lIya', or Ya'liya', 

 the name of a descendant, or successor, of De'va- 

 S'aila.) " The next dynasty was that of Couros," 

 (a corruption, from either Carn'a, Cura'n or Curu:) 

 *' it lasted 190 years." 



" Then the Indians divided, and formed several 

 kingdoms ; there was a king in the country of Sind; 

 one at Canoge ; another in Cashmii' ; and a fourth 

 in the city of i]/<7/?/i7>, called also the Great Houza ; 

 and the prince, who reigned there, had the title of 

 Balhara'':' 



Now, it is acknowledged, that Deb-'Salim was 

 the first Balhara emperor, and the founder of that 

 dynasty ; and if so, that emperor and his dynasty, 

 have been transposed by Masoudi, and erroneously 

 placed before Couros, whoever he was. The other 



* See accounts and extracts of the MSS. in the library of the 

 king of France, vol. 1st, p. 124. 



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