1838.] in two of the edicts of Asoka, king of India, 163 



But the subject of elucidation is not exhausted here. The Persian 

 historians have yet to be examined ; and their account of this eventful 

 period may be gathered, from Fekishta's words, to have been copied 

 not from the Greeks, but from native authorities now no longer extant. 



" Sinsarchand* assumed the imperial dignity after the death of 

 Phoor, and in a short time regulated the discomposed concerns of the 

 empire. He neglected not in the mean time to remit the customary 

 tribute to the Grecian captains, who possessed Persia under and after 

 the death of Alexander. Sinsarchand and his son possessed the 

 empire of India seventy years. When the grandson of Sinsarchand 

 acceded to the throne, a prince named Jon a, who is said to have been 

 a grand nephew of Phoor, though that circumstance is not well attest- 

 ed, aspiring to the throne, rose in arms against the reigning prince and 

 deposed himf." 



* Maurice's Modern Hindustan, vol. I. 65 — Sins&r-chand is just as much of 

 a Sanskrit name as Chandragupta, and nearly of the same import ; viz. 

 ^foUT'^' 5 ? Sansdra-chandra, ' moon of the world.' 



f The whole passage in Ferishta is not too long to be extracted, that it may 

 be consulted in the original. The Society's copy however differs from that 

 translated in the above quotation from Maurice in the substitution of other 

 names for those of the Greek captains. 



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