93 HISTORY OF CASHMIR. 



the fifth century before the Christian sera, as appears likely, the accession 

 of Gonerda the third must of course be assigned to the commencement of 

 the fourth, and as the year 150 of Sacya or B. C. 392, fell according to the 

 original m ithin the reign of Abhimanyu, we may place it a few years sub- 

 sequent or B. C. 388. 



Without venturing to place much reliance on the coincidence of names 

 adverted to in the note (p. 27), we may observe that both it, and the frequent 

 mention of the Mteclichhas which occurs in the succeeding reigns, are favour- 

 able to our hypothetical adjustment of the dates, if the barbarians and fo- 

 reigners alluded to, can be considered to bear any relation to the Macedo- 

 nian invasion or Bactrian kingdom. 



It were too wild an attempt to carry the investigation of our author's 

 chronology beyond the period at which we have now arrived. He pretends 

 not to precision himself. Of the fifty-three princes with whom he has peo- 

 pled the years that elapse between the first and third Gonerda, thirty-five 

 are without names, and the rest without dates. The singular view he has 

 taken of the sera of CrTsh-na will be fully commented on, but it is still too 

 far remote to bear any historical character. We may perhaps however de- 

 rive from the Raja Taringini, a confirmation of the theories, that place the 

 Yddava and Pdndava associates within the limits of the 14th century be- 

 fore the Christian sera. 



The eighteen Princes whose names occur in the list will give us, upon 

 the average of 20 years to a reign, 360 years. There are however but sixteen 

 reigns particularised, and supposing these to be the whole number, the com- 

 putation is but 320 years, which, being added to the date of Gonerda the 

 third, as above conjecturally fixed at B.C. 388, gives us 708 B.C. for the 

 date of CrTshna and Yudhishthir. But it is admitted that the first Bud- 

 dha, whose date may be considered at least 1000 B.C.* was something pos- 



* Buddha, according to Abul-fazl, B. C* 1366 

 Couplet, 1036 



De Guignes, 1027 

 Giorgi, 959 



Bailly, 1031 



Jones, 1027 

 Bentley, 1081 

 Ditto, 1004 



The later date assigned to this legislator undoubtedly refers to a different person, 



