HrSTORY OF CASHMIR. 97 



gasthenes was denominated after a Queen who was the daughter of 

 Hercules, a demigod, especially venerated by the Surasem, and these ideas 

 are of Indian origin although corrupted and disfigured, for Prit'ha or 

 Cumti wife of Pandcj and mother of the Pandavas, was the daughter 

 of Sura, king of the Sarasenas. W^mm ^"IfirT ^^fWH-T^rT \ c^f^ri ^Wl 

 «TTH ^^mTST^Wr ^rfa It " Sura the most illustrious of the Yadus, was the fa- 

 ther of Vasudeva; his daughter named Prit'ha was of unequalled beauty." 

 (Mahabh. Adl. P. ) The identity of place and persons is therefore unques- 

 tionable: as to Hercules he may have been readily fabricated out of Sura 

 which, in its usual import means " a Hero," or the Herculean exploits of 

 Balarama may have given to the Greek a reasonable pretext for assigning 



to him a Grecian appellation. 



No. IV. 



On the date of Yudhishthlr, fyc. 



The original passage is here subjoined together with its most obvious 

 translation, and the chronological results which it appears to authorize. 



<iipFTOfoi«iWKsw rfifaftf Wi i ^fxftw^w ^rsftrrsr frrerrsrr* i?hr*nt i 

 w$q ^5tt ^rife ^rf^r ^ *nr^ i ^i^n jj^wist^rst ^r^trfesrr* i %if^t 

 wot ?Wi wzTww worn i *r*nrf ^vT5rH^T?Tt ctt fxf^Tir^r 3T<rr i ^t^ttst 



Gonerda and other kings governed Cashmir in the Call yug2268 years. 

 Misled by the Bharata (war) being said to take place at the end of the 

 Dwapura , e, some consider these computations as incorrect. Taking the 



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