124 Additional information respecting the Sdrun [March, 



A. D. 1097 ; that sixf of the dynasty reigned there with great splen- 

 dour ; and that the sixth, by name Hari Sinh a De'va, was compelled to 

 abandon bis capital and kingdom, and take refuge in the hills A. D. 

 1322. The Moslem annals give 1323 for the date of the destruction 

 of Simroun by Toglak Shah. Of the accuracy of the latter date 

 there can be no doubt ; nor is the difference between the Musalman 

 and Hindu chronology of the least moment. But, unless Na'nyupa 

 had more than five successors, we cannot place the foundation of Sim- 

 roun higher than about 1200 A. D. That is clearly too recent ; and, 

 in fact, no part of the tradition can be trusted but that vouched by the 

 memorial verses, which only give the date of destruction. 



Memorial verses of the founding and desertion of Simroun. 



The following is a literal translation of these memorial verses : 

 ' The wealth accumulated by Rajas Rama, Nala, Pururava, and 

 Alarka, was preserved in a tank (that of Isra), and guarded by a 

 serpent. Nanyupa De'va destroyed the serpent ; appropriated the 

 wealth ; and built (Simroun) Garh with it. (His descendant) Hari 

 Sinha, compelled by cruel fate, abandoned his beautiful city, and went 

 to the hills in the year of the Saka 1245.' 



The kingdom of the Deva dynasty in the plains expired with the 

 destruction or desertion of Simroun. It extended from the Kosi to 

 the Gandak, and from the Ganges to the hills of Nepal : at least, such 

 were its limits in the days of its greatest splendour, when consequently 

 it embraced all the several localities from which I have recently for- 

 warded to you such signal memorials of Hindu power and science. 



II. — Further particulars of tit e Sdrun and Tirhut Laths, and Account of two 

 Buddha Inscriptions found, the one at Bakhra, in Tirhu*, the other at 

 Sdrndth, near Benares. By James Prinsep, Sec. As. Soc. $c. 



[Read at the Meeting of the 11th March.] 

 The following note, from Mr. Hodgson, (alluded to in the preced- 

 ing article,) accompanied the drawings of Buddhist monuments, which 

 had been promised to the Society in his letter, read at the meeting 

 of the 28th May, 1834. 



f 1, Nanyupa. 2, Ganga. 3, Nara Sinha. 4, Ra'ma Sinha. 5, Sakti 

 Sinha. 6, Hari Sinha, all with the cognomen Deva. 



