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one reigned as sovereigns of the country for a period of fourteen 

 hundred years up to the Saugor conquest in Samvat 1838, or A. D. 

 1781 ; and that the descendants of the other held the office and 

 discharged the duties of chief ministers for the same period. Among 

 the sovereigns during this time, there are said ^to have been fifty 

 generations, and sixty-two successions to the throne ; and among the 

 ministers only forty generations. This would give to each reign 

 something less than twenty- three years. In 1260 years France had 

 only sixty-three kings ; or one every twenty years*. 



I shall here give a list of the sovereigns with the number of years 

 each is said to have reignedf. This list as far as the reign of Prem 

 Narain, the 53rd of this line, is found engraven in Sanskrit upon a 

 stone in a temple built by the son and successor of that prince at 

 Ramnvgur near Mundala. It is said to have been extracted from 

 records to which the compiler, Jygobind Bajpae, had access ; and 

 good grounds to rely on the authenticity of this record for above a 

 thousand years may be found in the inscriptions on the different 

 temples built by the several princes of this house, bearing dates 

 which correspond with it ; and in the collateral history of the Mahom- 

 medans and others who invaded these territories during their reign. 

 The inscription on the stone runs thus " Friday the 29th of Jet, in the 

 year Samvat, 1724, (A. D. 1667,) the prince Hirdee Sa' reigning, the 

 following is written by Suda Seo, at the dictation of Jygobind Baj- 

 pae, and engraved by Singh Sa', Dya Ram, and Bhagi Rutee." 



As an instance which collateral history furnishes in proof of the 

 authenticity of this record, it may be stated, that Ferishta places the 

 invasion of Gurha by Asuf in the year Hidgeree, 972, or A. D. 1564; 

 and states, that the young prince, Beer Narain, had then attained 

 his eighteenth year. The inscription on the stone would place the 

 death of Dulput Sa', his father, in Samvat 1605, or A. D. 1548, as it 

 gives 1190 years to the forty-nine reigns, and the first reign com- 

 menced in 415. The young prince is stated to have reigned fifteen 

 years ; and tradition represents him as three years of age at his 

 father's death. This would make him 18 precisely, and add to 1548, 

 would place the invasion 1563, A. D. 



* In one hundred and sixty years Rome had no less than seventy Caesars. In 

 two hundred and fifty years the Mamelukes had in Egypt forty- seven sovereigns; 

 and a reign terminated only with a life. The Goths had in Spain in three hun- 

 dred years thirty-two kings. 



f We have not altered the system of orthography followed by the author, 

 although at variance with Sir W. Jones' scheme, because there are some names 

 for which we should be at a loss to find the classical equivalents. — Ed. 



