HISTORY OF CASHMIR. 23 



ilie Capita], and is often to be seen : this spot is called Da?nodar-uder accord- 

 in g to the Musselrnan accounts.* 



Damodara was succeeded by three princes who divided the country, and 

 severally founded capital cities named after themselves. These princes were 

 called Hushca, Jushca, and Canishca,-{- and these appellations are strongly 

 corroborative of an assertion of our author, that they were of Turushca, that 

 is, of Turc or Tartar extraction : they are considered as synchronous, but 

 may possibly be all that are preserved of some series of Tartar princes, who, 

 it is very likely, at various periods, established themselves in Caskmir. The 

 chief event recorded of their reign is the foundation of the three several ca- 

 pitals, named after themselves,^ but another and more important conse- 

 quence of their Sovereignty is said to have been the almost entire change of 

 the national faith, and the nearly exclusive prevalence of the doctrines of the 

 Bauddhas under a Bodhisatwa or hierarch named Nagarjuna. The period at 

 which this took place is said to have been 150 years before the death of 

 Sucaysinha.§ The presence of the Turushca princes in Cashmir, we may ob- 

 serve, is in harmony with Tartar traditions ; according to these, Oghuz their 

 patriarch is represented to have subdued that country, and introduced the 

 religion cfJaphet there, so long back as 2800 years before the Christian 

 eeta.|| A second Scythian irruption and subjugation of India, bordering on 



* I understand from some natives of Cashmir that this superstition still exists, and that Da- 

 TMOBARA, transformed to a serpent, still haunts a lake about seven cos from the Capital, and is 

 still occasionally visible : no doubt, in that form. 



f Beyshek, Reshek, Kinshek. Abulfazl. Brothers according to the same authority, but 

 not so termed in the original. 



X Hushcapur, said by the modern writers to be the modern Shecroh in the Pergannah of 

 Lar, and a town of some extent: Jushcapur and Canishcapur are identified with Dahimpw and 

 Cansapur, two inconsiderable villages in the time o£ Mohammed Shah. 



§ Appendix, No. VII. 



U Oghuz conquit ainsi toute la Bukharie, BalkJi, Khor, Kaboul, Ghazna etle Kaschmir ou 

 il y avoit un prince fort puissant nomine Jagma. Des Guignes Tome prem. Partie secondep. 10. 

 We cannot find in the text any name resembling the Jagma of the Tartar tradition, but it is ap- 

 parently a Hindu appellative, and the omission of its original is easily accounted for ; we have an 

 evident chasm in the history here, and the accession or expulsion of the Turushca princes is 

 equally unexplained. 



