2^'2 ESSAY ON 



are i/f an excessive length; and 100 years exactly 

 must be struck off. Sudraca is also styled Vicra- 

 ma'ditya; and here is the most material difference, 

 between the various copies of the Vansdvali: for in 

 those current in the west, instead of Sudraca, we 

 read Vicrama'ditya, whose predecessor was Bhar- 

 TRi-HARi, or SAC^yANT and Samudrapa'la his suc- 

 cessor. 



From the first year of 'Sudraca, to the first of 

 Vicrama'ditya the son of Bahram-Gur, there 

 are 343 years, and only fifteen kings to fill up that 

 space. He began his reign, A. D. 441, or 442, and 

 of course we must strike off* 100 years more from that 

 period. 



From the first year of this Vicrama'ditya, to 

 Maha'bhat and the first of the Hejra^ there elapsed 

 ]()6 years; which is about \6 years too many. From 

 this period, to De'va-Dha'ra'-sinha or Bh6ja, 148 

 3'cars ; which is too little by about 200 years; but 

 by introducing here the 200 years we have struck off 

 before, it will place either the accession or death of 

 Bhoja, in the year 9/0. From Bhoja to Trai- 

 locya-pa'la, or Jaya-chandra, 192 years. 'Su- 

 draca, SuRACA, called also 'Aditya, Sri-Carn'a- 

 De'va and Sri-Carn'a-Raja-Vicrama, was a fa- 

 mous conqueror and most powei'ful emperor. He is 

 introduced, in the list of the kings of Be7Jgctl, as one 

 of the successors of the famous Bh'aga-Datta, the 

 son of Naraca, king of Pragyotisha, in Assam; and 

 to whom Ca'nkya' the black, or Crishna, restored 

 the kingdom, after he had killed his father. 



In that list, he is supposed to have lived 1367 

 years after the Maha-Bharata ; which will place 

 him about the beginning of the Christian ei^a ; but, 

 according to the Jainas^ who place the beginning of 



