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successor, he had consequently provoked : his death however being really 

 brought about, observes the author, by the Deities, who could not bear his 

 beginning to render men immortal : TC^f ^rNNrrcaf tt^i^T JEmsrrsrsf \ 



5. Whoever Nagarjuna might have been, he was undoubtedly once a 

 person of great celebrity, for a large portion of the Kali Yug, or present age, 

 400,000 years yet to come, is denominated after him, the Ndgdrjun'iya £aca 

 or aera : it is singular therefore that there seem to be few or no legends 

 respecting him, and all are but little satisfactory. A Tantra named Cacsha 

 Puta is ascribed to him, but his name does not occur in its pages. A work 

 on medicine is named after him, and a Canara work the Pujyapdda Cha- 

 ritra makes mention of him, in a similar character as the Vrihat Catha, and 

 alludes to him as possessing some magical means of perpetuating his exist- 

 ence, and transmuting ordinary substances to gold. 



In none of these cases, except perhaps as the Sacddhipa, does he seem 

 to be considered as a king. 



]So. VIII. 



On the Ancient Names of Cashmir in Classical Writers. 



IT is said in the original (see page 24) that in consequence of the excessive 

 cold, the King resided six months in Ddrvdbhisdradi or in Ddrva, Abhisdra 

 and other places ■ of a more temperate clime it may be presumed. Ddrva, 

 has not been identified, although the Ddrvas are in the list of outcast tribes, 

 and were no doubt a people bordering on Cashmir. Abhisdra as well as 

 Ddrva, must be contiguous to Cashmir, and at the time mentioned, must have 

 been a part of the same kingdom. It is sometimes used, (As. Res. viii. 340) 



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