1 2 Historical Remarks [Jan. 



Vindhya-sacti from Kilakila, who adopts the manners of 

 the Yavanas, whose son is 



PlJRANJAYA, 



Ra'ma-chand-ra, 

 Dharma. 

 Vangara, (Wils. Var'anga.) 



Kritanandana, (who has 4 sons.) 



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SUKHINANDI, NANDIYASAS, SlSUHA. PrAVIRA. 



who has 13 sods. 

 After whom came 4 Bahukas or Bactrians, 3 Puspamitras, 13 Yadu- 

 mitras, 7 Mekalas ; and in Kausala or Oude, 9 Naishadhas. 



Thus the account of this dynasty, which Hamilton calls the Bah- 

 lic or Bactrian one, terminates in a confusion worse confounded than 

 that from which it emerged. And this statement in the Vishnu- 

 Purana is immediately followed by the passage above quoted respect- 

 ing the Magadhas and Guptas. 



Allowing, however, the least possible duration to the confused 

 periods that followed the subversion of the Andhra dynasty in the 

 middle of the fifth century after Christ, it is scarcely possible to fix 

 the subjects of our present inquiry, the Guptas, higher thnn the age 

 of Charlemagne in Europe, if we suppose them identical with the 

 Guptas of the Purana. 



Note A. 

 The insertion among the praises of the 5th king Scanda-gupta, of 

 the epithet " a mangier of the flesh of the refractory," (avinama-pala- 

 sdtdj and that in close juxta-position with the attributes of peculiar 

 wisdom, and adherence to a mysterious system of Cabalistic theo- 

 logy, — may appear surprising to persons who have either considered 

 but slightly the genius and tendencies of idolatry, or are unacquaint- 

 ed with this peculiar form of it. To shew how perfectly natural is 

 the juxta-position in the present instance, I cannot give a more 

 generally intelligible proof than in the picture drawn in the metaphy- 

 sical drama Prabodha-chandra-udaya, of a votary of this same Tantric 

 discipline, under the name of Sa-uma-siddhanta, — i. e. says the 



