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Varalia-sanhita, in which it is said, that 'Sa'liva'- 

 HANA, or "Saca, the ruler of tlie period denominated 

 aft€r him, appeared when ^259.6 years of the era 

 of Yudhisht'hira had elapsed; that is to say, he 

 was born 574 years B. C. and the year 544 is consi- 

 dered as that, either of his manifestation to the world 

 as a legislator, or of his ascension into heaven. The 

 Ja'mas, as well as the followers of Brahma', claim 

 Sa'liva'hana as their own, and suppose that he 

 manifested himself several times to the world; and 

 as there are several Vicrama'dityas, there are, of 

 course, several worthies of the name of Saliva'- 



HANA. 



Vrija-pa'la, or Brija-wa'la, is the famous Ma- 

 ha'-bali : for the kings of Magadha were thus called, 

 as I observed in my essay on Arm-Ga?igam ; and this 

 title was distorted into Birdwal and Berdaul by 

 Musulman writers. He is placed, erroneously, a 

 little before the era, of Vicrama'ditya, by the 

 compiler, for reasons which will appear immediately. 



From this famous emperor, he passes to Sada't- 

 pa'la, or SadaVva-pa'la, father-in-law of Bah ram- 

 Gur, and who gave him his daughter in marriage, 

 about the year 426 ; thus passing over the dynasties 

 of SuDRACA and Sa'liva'hana. The last dynasty, 

 which he supposes to have lasted 500 years, our 

 compiler has transported and brought down as low 

 as the invasion of TjMUR, in the year 1398. This 

 famous conqueror is generally called Tixmur-lenk, 

 by Hindus, in their Chronological lists, and also in 

 an inscription near Bijigur, 



This account of 'Sa'liva'h ana's dynasty at Dilli, 

 and at so late a period, however strange, is Pot en- 

 tirely groundless. Tieffenthaler, in his account af 

 Subah Dilli, mentions two kings of that name, on 

 therauthority of some Persian writers, whom he dots 



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