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famous treatise, called Jm'idau-kliird, or eternal wis- 

 dom, called also the will or testament oFHushenk, 

 had been written; he has been probably, from tliat 

 circumstance, made contemporary with that ancient 

 prince, who began his reign 700 years after the 

 accession of Cai-umuksh, to the throne of Persia. 

 Cai-umursh, according to IMasoudi, was the son of 

 Aram, the son of Shem, who died 605 years after 

 the flood. 



Masoudi says, that jManhaxctr was also called 

 the great Houza, which, translated into Hindi, is 

 Bwra-Houza, or Burra-Gouza, and has such affinity 

 with Bary-Gaza, or in Sanscrit Bhrigu-Cadihd or 

 BhnguCulay Bhi^igus shore or beach, that I strongly 

 suspect, that Masoudi mistook Baroach for Man- 

 hawei^ ; and that the blunder originated from a want 

 of knowledge of the Hindi language: Manhaxcer 

 is also called Mahoiira, by other Musulman writers. 



Our compiler says, that there were, in all, 36 

 kings, from DeVa-Saca, to the year 802 of Vi- 

 crama'ditya, answering to A. D. 746; but we can 

 make out only 29 from the list; for the five Pra- 

 maras must be rejected, as they do not belong to 

 India, They are called in this list, CKharai-xi-hahu^ 

 which is an expression partly Sanscrit and partly 

 Hindi, as usual in these lists. It signifies the four 

 great destroyers, and is an allusion to the famous 

 Chdr-ya7^i of the Musulmans ; and which as I ob- 

 served before, is made with a little straining, to sig- 

 nify, in Sanscrit and Hindi, the four destroyers, in- 

 stead of the four filends and associates. Several of 

 their names imply the abhorrence, in which the 

 Hindus hold them; for one is called Savala', Cer- 

 berus or the infernal dog: another, Prama'ra or 

 Parima'ra, is here meant for Muhammed, and sig- 

 nifies YAMAor Pluto, the infernal and universal de- 

 stroyer, Cu't'ai'al'a. he wlio was fostered by Maya', 



