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historians also differ amongst themselves ; but the commonly received 

 account related that Arsaces, the founder, was succeeded by his 

 brother Tiridates, who was succeeded by his son Artabanus. By 

 omitting the second Ashk of the Persians, who is not mentioned by 

 the western authors, the two accounts will correspond exactly as to 

 relationship, although not in names. Grudarz and his son Pirasi 

 will thus become the third and fourth princes of the dynasty, aud 

 be identified with Artabanes aud his son Priapatius, who together 

 occupied the Parthian throne from B. C. 216 to 190. 



Eegarding the date of Jona we have in all the copies of Ferishta 

 the uniform term of seventy years assigned to Sansarchand alone, 

 or to himself and family. If we place the accession of Sansarchand 

 or Sandrakottos in B. C. 312, we shall obtain B. C. 242 for the 

 accession of the Jona Raja of Ferishta ; and as he is said to have 

 reigned ninety years from B. C. 242 to 152, he was a contemporary 

 of Antiochus the Great, during the whole period of his reign. 



On referring to my list of the Mayura dynasty of Delhi, it will 

 be seen that the founder is named Yavana-dhara or rather Yona- 

 dhara,yb±>ji which is the same name as Yona or Jona. The date 

 which I have assigned to him from B. C. 230 to 210 is not an arbi- 

 trary one, but is based upon the interval elapsed between the great 

 war and the victory of Vikramaditya. In Tod's and Ward's lists, 

 the number of princes from Parikshita the son of Arjuna to Raja- 

 pala is sixty-six : in my list, the number is sixty-eight. Now allow- 

 ing an average of twenty years to each reign, the accession of 

 Parikhshita will be placed in 1397 B. C, a date which agrees exactly 

 with the close of the great war.* 



Regarding the various names of the founder of this dynasty we 

 may rest satisfied with the explanation given us by Strabo, that it 

 was customary for the princes of this period to have two or three 



* Colebrooke and Davis, 1391 B. C. from observations of the equinoctial coluies 

 recorded by Parasara — Wilford, 1367 B. C. from independent observations— Wil- 

 son, 1430 B. C. The mean of these is 1395 B. C. The date of 1180 B. C, 

 which Jas. Prinsep was inclined to adopt on account of its near coincidence with 

 B. C. 1176, the epoch of Paras-sur-ama whose era is still in use, was the first cal- 

 culation of Davis and Colebrooke. Their corrected calculation was the earlier date 

 which I have given. 



