IS HISTORY OF CASHMIR. 



towns and building' temples and palaces : one city of his construction was 

 Suraca situated near the Ddrada country, or at the foot of the mountains. 



According to the Mohammedan writers, this prince had a daughter named 

 Calapan Bhanu of great beauty and accomplishments ; the reputation of 

 which induced Bahman, the son odsfendiar, who afterwards governed Persia 

 under the name of Ardisheer Dirazdest, to solicit and obtain the princess in 

 marriage. It does not appear from what source they have derived this story, 

 as it is not found in the Hindu records, nor in the hstorieal romance of 

 Firdausi, unless we suppose it. to have originated in the adventures of Gush- 

 tasp, the grandfather of Bahman, who whilst in exile in the west married 

 Katlyoon, the daughter of the Emperor of Room. ( Malcolm's Persia 56.) 

 Had there been any foundation for the tradition, it might have been of some 

 chronological utility, but it is probably either an idle invention, or it is a 

 misrepresentation of the fables which relate to the adventures of Behram 

 Gor, who according to Firdausi, visited India, and there married Sipanud the 

 daughter of Sha.ncal king of Canouj.* 



As Surendra however had no son, he was succeeded by a prince of ano- 



* Or rather of the whole tract of country from Canouj to Khorasan, according to the Persian 

 poet. Thus Bahrain, he says, sends an embassy to Shancal, who is sovereign of India from the 

 river of Canouj to the borders of Sind j^ tfgyj^Uj jj J^jlj/i j£a Ju JJA* 

 the king in his reply tells him, that the region he rules is full of mountains and streams, and ex- 

 tends from Canouj to Iran in one direction, and in the other from Siclab (Sclavonia or Tartary) 

 to China. 



The Shancal here mentioned is probably the Shincal of Meerkhond and Ferishta ; they 

 have however added to his history, and have made him contemporary with Afrasiab. The 

 union noticed in the text terminated according to Bedia-ad-din unhappily, and Behman was 

 murdered by the attendants of the princess at her instigation, in resentment of his contemptu- 

 ous mention of her father ; and he did not perish, he observes, as said by other reports, of the 

 bite of a snake, 



