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cons, As'arapiira, Asara-gfiha or As'ara-gur ; which 

 is jirobably tlie town called Zerogere or Xerogeri by 

 Ptolemy. Bammogara, mentioned by the same 

 author, is probal'ly BamuJi-gaiiw, or Bamun-gur, on 

 the northern bank of the Narmadd, about thirty 

 miles S. AV. of JIandozv, and noticed in a route from 

 Sulianpoor, on the Tapti, to Ujja^ini. 



The immediate predecessor of Vana-ra'ja, at 

 least in the corrected hst, is styled Nki-pati, the 

 lord of men, or the emperor; but there was an in- 

 lerreijnum ; for there were, at that time, neither 

 Bala-Rdyas nor emperors in Gujarat' ; and the whole 

 country was subject to the emperors of C^zwo^e; for 

 Vai^a-ra'ja' seized upon the royal treasure, on its 

 waj' from Gujarat' to that metropolis. 



In these lists, and also in those from the Puranas, 

 the names of many kings, posterior to the Christian 

 era, are hard'y rc<lucible to the Sanscrit standard ; 

 and most of them seem to be epithets, and nick- 

 iian^.es^ borrowed from tlie vulgar dialects; or else 

 names of persons of low tribes. 



In our list we read first, " then will appear princes 

 of the Chauhdna^ Chawda and Gohila tribes." Tii- 

 js'aca, the first emperor was a Yddava, or from the 

 Yadu tribe. After the eleventh king, called Da- 

 hima', " then will appear the following tribes, the 

 Csfwids, Macxcdnas, Hatias, Bhoanasf all names 

 in a pluralform: and these tribes, except the Hums, 

 belong to Gujarat^ and are still extant. What the 

 author meant, by introducing chein here, is not 

 easily conjectured : but I sup]^osc that there was an 

 interregnum, during which, these tribes became in- 

 jdep'endent in their own districts. " Then will come 

 Nicu:MBf!A, the Jdl'id'' or of the Jidi7n tribe. *' His 

 successor was Th /ca ; when the Clilidrui-vi-hahd 

 appeared ;" in son.e copies we read V/ihdruada-vi- 



