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cision than before, and specifies the term of each prince's reign : it is evi- 

 dent however that the reigns of the earliest sovereigns are much too pro- 

 tracted, and they must be considerably reduced to be brought within the 

 limits of probability : the object of the author is evidently to reconcile the 

 details with the gross amount of years, which he has stated to extend, from 

 the first prince of the new series, the third Gonerda, to 1070 of Saca, and 

 which he has made 2330 : how far this postulate is correct we are not yet 

 prepared to determine ; and must refer its discussion to the close of the 

 history, when we shall have the whole subject before us : in the mean time 

 the chronology of our author may be admitted, and the dates of the various 

 reigns assigned to them on the principles ofhis computation ; commencing 

 accordingly with the year before Christ 1182 corresponding with 23S0 years 

 before Saca 1070 or A. D. 1148. 



Gonerda* the third, succeeded Abhimanyu, and prosecuted the reform 

 which that prince had commenced ; the ancient ritual agreeably to the Mia 

 precepts!, ^a- restored, and the worship of the Adgas and the offering of sa- 

 crifices re-established : by acts of this description, the fame of monarchs is 

 perpetuated, and this prince gave the same lustre to his family, as Raghava 

 diffused upon the race of Raghu. He reigned 35 years. 



Gonekda was succeeded by several princes of whom we have only record- 

 ed the dry list, of names, and the duration of their reigns. These were 



Vibhishana, who reigned 53 years ; Indrajita, 35 years and 6 months; 

 Havana, 30 years; Vibhishana 2d, 35 years and 6 months ; 



Making an aggregate of 154- years. OfRAvANA,it is said, that he extend- 

 ed the worsh'p of Siva as the Linga VaUswara, and of the second Vibhishana 

 that he was both a Patron and Cultivator of the art of Music; the Moham- 



* According to Btdia-ad-dinhe was not born but elevated to the throne; how, is not men- 

 tioned ; the same authority makes him subdue, by means of his general Nand Earn, the whole 



of Hindustan as far as the Nermada. 



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