m HISTORY OF CASHMIR. 



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Cashmir. 'dXwftZ&X %?CT tftiT T^f^ t&i ( ^TTfT^^sr Trf^niif^sfa 



- Their superiority is assigned also to argument, not to authority ; ^ 3l1^«f * 



" In that time (Abhimanyu's reign,) the Bauddhas, cherished by the learn- 

 ed BqdMsatwa, Nag arjun a, maintained the ascendancy: they, the enemies 

 of the Agama ( Vedas,) and disputatious, overcame all the wise men in ar- 

 gument, and demolished the practices, prescribed in the ISila Purdna" 



2. That the Raja Tarangiiii does not mean to include Nagarjuna, 

 amongst the kings of Cashmir, may be also inferred from his omission in 

 Abulfazl's lists, prepared, as those were no doubt, from correct copies, and 

 by able Pundits, and corresponding exactly with the Sanscrit text in every 

 other instance. 



3. The length of Nagarjuna's supposed reign, 150 years, or in fact its 

 specification at all in this part of the history, is also hostile to its occurrence, 

 as precision in this respect, is affected by the author, only from the reigri 

 of Gonerda the third. 



4. We have the authority of the Vrihat Kafka, the author of which was 

 a Cashmirian, and lived about the same time with Calhana, for denying the 

 title of king to Nagarjuna; his work is a compilation of fables, it is true, 

 and his account of Nagarjuna is evidently consistent with that character J 

 but it still may serve to shew in what light that personage was usually 

 considered by the Hindus. In the 7th section of the book entitled Retna 

 prabha Lamhaca, Nagarjuna, is called the minister of Chirayu, king of 

 Chiraya pur ; a Bodhisatwa ; a man of singular virtue and charity, and great 

 medical and chemical knowledge. He allows his head to be cut off to save 

 the king's life, whose days his knowledge of the elixir of immortality had 

 preserved beyond the natural limits, and the enmity of whose son and 



