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to reduce the average of the other five reigns to an admissible term, 

 and would, at the same time, adjust the date of Aso'ka's reign in the 

 Raja Tarangini to the date assigned to it in Buddhistical chronology, 

 as well as produce the same result with that arrived at by the fore- 

 going adjustment of the Brahminical chronology, — -viz. fix the age of 

 Gonerda III. to about B. C. 5. 



In the translation of the foregoing Sanscrit quotation, on the 

 authority of which Professor Wilson's adjustment of the age of 

 Gonerda III. from B. C. 1182 to B. C. 338 is founded, I have 

 ventured to make a few verbal alterations, unconnected with the date, 

 in conformity with the meaning which Buddhistical phraseology 

 would suggest. From the context with the other portions of the 

 work, it may be perfectly just to apply the term " pravrajyarjita" 

 to " Bauddhas" exclusively ; and M. Csoma de Koros corro- 

 borates, from Tibetan authorities, the inference that these Tartar 

 princes were of the Buddhistical faith. But that term in Buddhisti- 

 cal literature signifies, in the most general sense, " ascetic," without 

 distinction of any particular religion. The impression conveyed to 

 my mind by this passage is rather to the effect that " Cashmir was 

 under the spiritual controul of (Brahminical) ascetic sages, eminent 

 for their rigid piety," than that " Cashmir was the enjoyment of 

 Bauddhas eminent for austerity" during the reigns of the three 

 Turushka princes. 



The correction made by Professor Wilson from " Puranirvritte" 

 to " Parinirvrite" is indispensable ; and had the Burma priest, whom 

 he consulted, called to his recollection that Majjhantiko thtro did not 

 repair to Cashmir for the purpose of converting it to Buddhism, until 

 236 years after the death of Sa'kya Sinha, he would doubtless have 

 also pointed out that, according to Buddhistical authorities, there was 

 as great an irrelevancy and inadmissibility involved in the specified 

 date of 150 years, as in computing that date " anterior" instead of 

 "posterior" to the death of Buddha. 



This manifest inaccuracy is to be rectified by prefixing " d" to the 

 " siirdhan varsha satan," and converting it into " dasdrdhan varsha 

 satan*." In making the addition of this single letter, it must not be 



* I should here note that I have never met in my P/ili reading, nor has any 

 native scholar been able to refer me to, the numeral " Sadd/ian-sata" for " one 

 hundred and fifty ;" although, according to grammatical rules, the contraction 

 of " Saha-addhdn-sata" into " Buddha'a-sata" appeai-s to be perfectly admissi- 

 ble. Whereas the numeral " Dasaddhasata" contracted from " Dasa-addAdn- 

 sata" for " half a thousand," is in continual use. It is repeatedly met with in 

 the Mahdwanso, Ch. I. " Sdmudde Ndgabhawani dasaddhasata yojanL" " In 

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