1854.] On the Ballads and Legends of the Punjab. 79 



14. Earn Suha, his son. 



15. Bunsoor, his brother. 



16. Bun Sing, ditto. 



17. Buttun Syne, ditto, imprisoned by Sooltan Julal- 



ood-deen. 



18. Indurjeet, in Sunbut 1688. 



19. Runjeet. 



20. Bir Singh. 



21. Bhamt. 



22. Baja Maun Singh. 



It would not however, suit the limits of a preface to pursue the 

 question further. If the suggestions be sound, they will be taken 

 up by men of greater erudition, who have leisure and the means of 

 reference to books. I would however observe that bare lists of 

 sovereigns, extending back four or five thousand years, without a 

 single incident of history, or a hint by which to test their accuracy 

 in comparison with parallel events in the history of the world, can 

 be valuable only, when consonant with known phenomena. That 

 nothing is more easy than to fabricate such lists and that nothing 

 can be more probable than that bards and priests should fabricate 

 them in support of their own theories and for the gratification of 

 the vanity of those in power. 



Let us now turn our attention to the favourite hero of the 

 Punjaub Baja Bussaloo son of Sala Byne or Salbyn or Salivahana, 

 whose capital was Sialkot, one of the oldest cities of the Punjaub, 

 held by the Pooroowar dynasty. I have in a former number of the 

 Asiatic Journal offered a list of the Bajahs of Sialkot as recorded 

 in a MS. which I there procured, I offer it again for convenience 

 of reference. 



