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43umarica-chand'a, he ascended the imperial throne 

 in the year of the Cali-yuga 3191, and of Christ 

 19 !• The appendix to the ^o7;/-/;i/?wiV/ places his 

 accession in the year 185, and the Ay'm-Acberi in the 

 year tOl of our era, and he reigned at Ujjayim. 

 By Ptolemy, the king of that famous city, is called 

 Tiastan; a strange name, and not reconcileable to 

 the idiom, either of the Sanscrit, or Hindi languages. 

 I strongly suspect however, that it is a corruption of 

 yldityasthcm, which may have been misnnderstood, 

 by travellers, who knew very little of tlie country 

 languages. I suppose that either these travellers, or 

 Ptolemy, who conversed with many Hindus at 

 AleMtndria^ asked what weie the names of the me- 

 tropolis of that country, and of its king. The 

 answer was UJjay'un-Rdja-Aditya sthan ; ^ Uijayini 

 is the residence of king 'Aditya :' which was erro- 

 neously rendered ' Ojenc is the metropolis of king 

 Tyastha'n,' or Tiastiiay. In the same manner 

 he has disligured the name of the Ballier kings, 

 •saying that Hippocuros was the place of residence 

 of king Baler-curos, which is obviously a cor- 

 ruption for Baiher-ghur, tlie fort or place of a])ode 

 flf king Balheji. Thus Strabo, in speaking of tlic 

 country of TeJ, in Cachlia calls it the kingdom of 

 Tessariostus, thereby implying, that this was the 

 name of the'king; whWst Thsariost us \?, a corruption 

 from Tejardshtr, or Teja-rasht, which signifies the 

 kingdom of Teja, an ancient king, who built the 

 town of Teja, to the eastward of the Indus. As 

 king De'b-^Saila, or De'-'Saila, is called, in our 

 Jist, Di-'Saca, or Deva-Saca, wliich is also one 

 of the titles of 'Sv'LrvA'iiANA; this would induce 

 an opinion, that Dae-Shelim, or Di-Salim, is the 

 same Avith 'Saliva'iiana. But such is the confusion 

 and uncertainty of Hindu recorrls, that one is really 

 iifraid of forming any opinion whatever. 



As it is said, that it was by his order, that the, 



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