88 On the Ballads and Legends of the Punjab. [No. 1. 



Manes of the Manichseans and the Mooni of the Boodhist, and of 

 their common origin there can be little doubt. 



Another remarkable circumstance is, that in the Punjaub a Bood- 

 hist priest is called Gnastic ; a name so peculiar and so underivable 

 from any dialect of the country, that there is some ground for 

 believing it to be identical with Gnostic. 



One of the branches of the Manichsean heresy was that of the 

 Aphites, whose Agatho Demon was the serpent : and the serpent 

 was a type of the Saviour of the world — or according to some, was 

 the Saviour. 



Now according to tradition Sal Byne or Salivahana was son of a 

 carpenter, and educated by a potter. His father, the carpenter, was 

 chief of a serpent tribe, called Tukshaka, who could at pleasure 

 appear as serpents or as men. Vikramaditiya, king of India, hear- 

 ing that a child should be born of a virgin, who should conquer 

 him, sent forth an army to destroy the child. The child Salivahana, 

 breathing life into an army of clay images which the potter had 

 made to amuse him, sent them forth and conquered Vikramaditiya. 

 His army, however, entering the holy stream of the Narbudda on 

 their return, dissolved in the water. 



u Thi s # Salivahana appears in the Budhi Sutwa of Siam as the 

 Devetat or great foe and persecutor of Boodha through his ten 

 stages of existence. Salivahana under the title of Tukshaka was 

 crucified by order of Boodha on an instrument resembling the cross. 

 Others say that he was impaled alive upon a double cross and hurl- 

 ed into the infernal regions : but the picture representing this, exhi- 

 bits blood upon the arms and legs as if from crucifixion." 



It is manifest that Salivahanaf was in some manner connected 



* According to Col. Low. 



f Salivahana signifies the cross-borne. Hindoos however derive it from Shali, a 

 winged-horse that could fly over the ocean, and Wahun a Rider : Rider of the 

 winged-horse. 



The following is the succession of kings of the Chundra bunsi line according 

 to Sanscrit records 



Rana, king of the Dukkua or South, Maun Singh, bis son, who reigned from 

 Benares to the Dukkun. 



