HISTORY OF CASIIMIR. 49 



lie did not erect statues and temples of the Gods : a very long enumeration- 

 ensues of these proofs of his liberality, of which it will here be necessary only 

 to particularize a few. He founded the cities of Sunischitapnra, Derpila- 

 pura, Pludapura, Lalitapura and Parihasapura : in Hushcapurhe erected an 

 image of Mucla Swami, and one of Nri/tari in the Stri lldjya. In the 

 Bhumi Grama, he built the temple of Jyeshta Rudra, and over and along 

 the Vitastd he built bridges and stone ghats. Parihasapura was his favorite 

 work ; in this city, he built a palace of unhewn stone, and a variety of royal 

 and religious edifices : he raised a column of one stone, 24 cubits long, and 

 bearing on the summit an image of Garuda: he placed in the temples images 

 of metal ; one of Vishnu as Parihasa Ces'ava was made of pure silver, weigh- 

 ing 1000 palas, and another colossal figure of Buddha was constructed of 

 1000 Prastlias of brass ; a figure of Hari with flowing hair, was set up of gold, 

 and another golden image was made by him of the same deity in the Va- 

 rdha Avatar. His example was imitated by his queens, by tributary princes, 

 and by his ministers, one of whom, a second Jina, named Chancuna, ana- 

 tive of Bokhara, erected a Viltar, and set up in it an image, made in Magadha 

 or Behar, called indifferently by our author Jina Vimba and Sugata Vim- 

 ba, and therefore of undetermined character as to its being of Bauddha 

 or Jaina manufacture, although most probably the former : the foundation 

 of Parihasapur* or Parrispur and its embellishment by this prince are 

 recorded by the Mohammedan writers, of whom Mohammed Azim adds, 



imposed by the kings of Cashmir may be denied even on Hindu authority. Inthe JEfttrt Vansa, a portion 

 of the Mahabharata, and certainly much older than the work before us, the following account is given 

 of the imposition, of the distinguishing modes of wearing the hair, upon the tribes of MUchch'has or fo- 

 reigners : " The king Sagara in obedience to the orders of his Guru, Vasishta, deprived the BlUcheh'has 

 of their institutes, and imposed upon them these marks : the Sacas had half the head shaved, the 

 Yavanas and Cambojas the whole of their hair taken off, the Paradas were ordered to wear beards." 

 These customs might perhaps admit of verification, and might enable us to identify the tribes. Some of 

 the Greeks were from a remote period accustomed to shave the fore part of the head: the mountaineers 

 of the Himalaya shave the crown, as do the people of Caferistan with the exception of a single tuft, and 

 some of these people, which is acurious coincidence, are called Caumojees, (Elphinstone's Cabul, 619 

 and 625) ; they also some of them wear beards five or six inches long. The Persians also wore long 

 beards in the time of Ammianus Marccllinus, as they do still. 



* Purrispoor is mentioned in the Ay.Ac.ii. 159, with the addition that a lofty idolatrous temple stood 

 there, which was destroyed by Secander. Refi-ad-din also converts the column into the minarets of 

 a temple. 



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