6l6 CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



"715 A. D. (= 1375th of Synmu,'' art de verif.), Genonei succeeded by Gensioo, granddaughter 

 of Tenmu, and now at the age of fourteen dairo of Japan. 



" The same year " (Alst.), Anastasius II. succeeded by Theodosius III., twenty-second Byzantine 

 emperor. 



" In this year" (Biograph. univers.), end of the reign of Dagobert II., king of the Franks. 

 "The same year" (Alst., and Nicol.), at Rome, Constantinus succeeded by Gregorius the 

 younger, twenty-fourth archbishop. At this time (= "720" of Beda), the practice in England 

 among nobles and others, men and women, to make visits or pilgrimages to Rome. 



"The same year" (art de verif.), Walid succeeded by Soliman, seventh Ommiad khalif. "In 

 the reign of Soliman," building of the nilomiler on Rhoda islet (not far from the present city of 

 Cairo) ; round arches continuing in vogue. 



" 716 A. D. (= 94 A. H.," Elph. v. 1), date of an inscription in Persian in the country between 

 the Oxus and Jaxartes, — seen by Burnes ii. 269 to 356. 



"In this year" (Alst.), Theodosius III. succeeded by Leo III. Isaurus, twenty-third Byzantine 

 emperor. 



" In or about this year " (Abulfeda in Kitt. cycl. bibl.), the city of Ramleh, " twenty-four " miles 

 Northwestward from Jerusalem, founded by khalif Soliman. The great caravan-road from Constan- 

 tinople, Smyrna, and Damascus, passes through Ramleh to Egypt. — ■ The city is mentioned about 

 154 years after its foundation, by the monk Bernard; and in the time of Edrisi, was next after Jeru- 

 salem the principal city of Palestine. 



"In this year" (Jap. mann. 3S3), two Japanese students visiting China: one of whom returning 

 became under the designation of Kibino Daisi the most celebrated learned man produced in Japan: 

 the other remaining behind, was so honoured in China that he held the appointment of Archive 

 keeper "sixty-one years." 



" 717 A D." (art de verif.), Soliman succeeded by Omar II., eighth Ommiad khalif. 

 "718 A. D." (Gaubil, and Pauth. 314), a Sanscrit treatise on Astronomy translated into Chinese 

 by Y-hang. Who further constructed instruments, and sent mathematicians North and South a long 

 distance, to triangulate and ascertain the length of the degrees of Latitude, and the position of places 

 on the Earth's surface. Y-hang maintained, That the planet Jupiter completes its revolutions in less 

 than twelve years ; having in "eighty-four years" made "seven revolutions and traversed in addition 

 one twelfth part of the zodiac." 



The Vetala panchavinsati, a series of twenty-five Sanscrit Tales, written as early perhaps as this 

 date.* ' 



"720 A. D." (art de verif.), Omar II. succeeded by Yezid II., ninth Ommiad khalif. 

 " In or about this year" (hist. Cashm., and H. PI. Wils. hind. dram. ii. 4), Yasovarman reigning 

 at Kanoj. He patronized the Sanscrit dramatist Bhavabhuti. Bhrigu, YKwamitra, Jamadignva 

 (Parasurama son of Jamad.igni), also the sage Agastya, Vasishtha, the poetess Sakuntala, and Yalmiki 

 author of the Ramayana, are mentioned by Bhavabhuti. \ 



* Erythrina Indira of Tropical Hindustan and Burmah. A species of coral tree called in Mala- 

 bar "moolloo-moorikah," in Tamil " muruka-marum," in Telinga " bad'de-chettu," in Bengalee "palita- 

 mandar," in Hindustanee "furrud" (Drur.), in the environs of Bombay "pangara" (Graham), in Burmah 

 "ka-theet" (Mason); in which we recognize the "muruca" tree of the Vetala panchavinsati, — re- 

 ferred here by B. < ; li.ibington (lond. Or. transl.) : E. Indica was observed by Rheede vi. pi. 7 in 

 Malabar; by Graham, "common throughout the Concans," a "middle sized tree, trunk and branches 

 armed with black prickles," in the Deccan "generally used as a prop for vines ; " by Roxburgh and 

 Wight, in other parts of Hindustan as far as Coromandel and Bengal, yielding the mootchic wood, 

 light and easily worked, much used for boxes, sword-scabbards, toys, idols, and even rafts and canoes 

 (B. G. Bab., and Drur.) ; by Mason v. 531, indigenous in Burmah, furnishing soft white wood "as 

 easily worked as the pine." 



t Elceocarpu . ganitms of Tropical Hindustan. A tree called in the environs of Bombay "oodrach " 

 (Graham) ; and the sacred rosary around the wrist of the military student mentioned by Bhavabhuti 

 uttar. iv. — (transl. H. H. Wils ), the circlet of grains of "aksha" of Kalidasa ragh. xi. 5(1, and the 

 "aksha" prescribed by Susrutas, are referred here by writers: E. ganitrus is described by Rum- 

 phius iii. pi. 101 ; was observed by Nimmo in the Southern Concan, the nuts "worn as necklaces by 

 Brahmins and Faqueers " (Graham) ; by Roxburgh, and Wight, in other parts of Hindustan; and by 

 Burmann pi. 20, on Ceylon. By European colonists, was carried to the Mauritius Islands, where it 

 continues in gardens (Boj.). 



Cedrela {Soymida) febrifuga of Tropical Hindustan. A large tree called in Sanscrit " rohuna," 

 in Mahratti "rohuni" (J. F. Wats.), in Hindustanee "rohana," in Bengalee "rohun" in Telinga 



