HISTORY OF CASHMIR. Oj. 



were at that time established in the neighbouring districts : he also introduc- 

 ed into the Government the forms and offices elsewhere prevalent, and first 

 assigned titles and duties to the following seven officers of state, the Dher- 

 mddhyacsha, the justiciary, or chancellor; Dhana-adhyacsha, treasurer; 

 Coska-adhyacsha, master of the military stores ; Chamupati, commander 

 in chief; Duta, messenger or embassador; Purodhd, the royal chaplain or 

 almoner, and the Daivajnya or chief astrologer. The eighteen offices, and 

 their duties, were also defined by this prince, who appears to have been the 

 first of the Cashmir kings who introduced religion and government into that 

 kingdom. He is said to have particularly worshipped Siva as Mandesa in con- 

 sequence of having had read to him theNandipurdna by one of Vyasa's scho- 

 lars : he also erected temples to the same deity as Jyeshta Rudra. This 

 prince was possessed of supernatural powers, and several marvellous stories 

 are narrated of him, which we need not pause to extract : he was also a 

 prince of a generous disposition, and a rigid observer of his word : although 

 devoted to Siva, he forbore in the latter part of his reign from molesting 

 the followers of the Bauddlia schism, and even bestowed on them some en- 

 dowments as the Vihar* called Critydsrama, in honor of one of their female 

 divinities, or spirits named Critydddvi, by whom he had been addressed as a 

 Bodhisatwa himself, f After a long and glorious reign, he went on a pilgri- 



* Vihar is a common Sanscrit word usually employed to designate a Banddha temple as well 

 as an establishment or College of Sauddha priests. It seems to have been also used by the old 

 Persians in a similar sense, and to have been applied to their fire temples. See Ouseleys Persia 

 126, and note. In the work before us, it has frequently an extended meaning, and also signifies a 

 Royal pleasure house or garden. 



f The divinity who appeared to the prince to intercede for the Bauddhists explains the term 

 Bodhisatwa ; 



' Those who are Bodhisatwas trusting to the one great refuge, are desirous of the destruction of 

 darkness; they proceed in the universe of the Lord, from the Lord of the universe, and are not 



wroth 



