182 ESSAY ON 



dynasties of Puru, Ya'jIya' and Cuiiu, lasted ac- 

 (^ordir.g to liim, either 390 or 350 years. We can- 

 not fix, with precision, the begining of the dynasty 

 of Puru; but at all events, the division o^ India 

 into four empires, happened in the first century after 

 Christ; and according to Arriax, in his PeripluSy 

 the city of j}fi?magara or Jllankir, was tlic metropolis 

 of that part of the country. The city is placed, 

 by ProLLMY, upon the banks of tlie Narmada, and 

 is now called Munlicvser. I have not yet been able 

 to procure much information about this famous 

 place, as very few people from that part of India 

 ever come to Benares: but it is mentioned in the 

 Ayin Acberi, as a t(nvn of some note in the district 

 of MandoWj m the ])rovince of Malwah. 



The dynasty of De'va-Sailim, in Mcinhaivm\ 

 according to Masludi, lasted j20 years; that is to 

 say, iiis dcscendarts were, during that period, lords 

 paramount of India, or at least of ihat part of it; 

 and in the time of Ptolemy, the metropolis of that 

 country was no \o':i'^ki\' Alanhawcr, but the seat of 

 cnipire had been transferred to Ujjayhn or Ozene; and 

 he wrotp in tlje beginning of the third century. In 

 his tliKe, the Bala-Raifos Mere no longer lords pa-r 

 ramount of India; but were either vassal, or inde- 

 pendent kings, residing in son:ie fastnesses among 

 th<'. mountains, at a place called by liim Hippocura ; 

 and now Pay-giirra or Pawa-gurra. This was, 

 says he, rise piace of abode of the Balcr-cnros ; or 

 rathc! Jit gar, euros, fort or abode, of the Bather 

 kin- 3. /fccording to the appendix to the Agni-pn- 

 rdna, tht supposed dynasty of 'Sa'liva'hana lasted 

 184; but according Jo the A ijin- Acberi, iiOO years. 

 Af ;cr It, came A'djtya, of the Po?;?<:/;'fl tribe, called 

 also V'jcRARiA'riTYA, SuDiiACA and \Slraca: he 

 Wds V isviipati, ihat is lord paramount of the world, 

 or rather of that part of India. According to the 



