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bestowed upon noblemen, by the emperors of India. 

 In the Englisli translation of the Ay'm-Acberiy Ha'm- 

 MiRA is erroneously called Jemeer. The dynasty 

 of the princes oi Mahvah was a collateral one with 

 those of the Bala Rdyas, though it be placed be- 

 tween Nkipati and Vana-ra'ja in our list. Such 

 mistakes are not unfrequent among Hindu Chrono- 

 logers : but as Vana-ra'ja's dynasty began in the 

 year 746, and that of Malwdh began in the veat 

 191, and ended about the* year 977, it is obvious 

 that they were collateral, and I have arranged them 

 accordingly. In the dynasty of the princes of il/rt- 

 lava, Gardabha and his son VicraMa'ditya re- 

 appear; and, in the room of S'urya-Sexa, or S'ri* 

 Surya'n'sa, we have S'a'liva'hana.; which confirms 

 my former conjecture, that they were but one and 

 the same individual. 



My Pandit observes, that many of the names of 

 the princes, who reigned before Vana-ra'ja^ are 

 not proper names of individuals; but belong, either 

 to tribes, or ancient families, from which they 

 sprang, or to small districts, or towns, their patri- 

 monial estates, and \rith which he is well ac- 

 quainted ; anfl many of these names are in the 

 plural form. Thus, Ja'liya', the name of a king, 

 implies only that he was a Ja'liya', or of the Jalim 

 tribe, which is settled on the banks of the Mahi. 



Masulman writers say, that the metrnpoUs of 

 those Baler kings was equally called Balhar, as 

 well as the mountains amons: which it is situated*. 

 It was in a country belonging to the Chauhcm tribe, 

 the chief of which generally resides at ^//7?zo//^m'|"."' 

 and it became the metropolis, when that tribe 



* See D'Herbelot's Bibl. Orient, v. Baliiar. 

 tTliis is also continued hy Abul-Fazil. See Ayin-Acherif 

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