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Hings" in tlie Uria language, which records are stated to have been com- 

 menced upon more than six centuries back, and to have been since regularly 

 kept up. 3d. Another Yansavali or Genealogy written in Sanscrit on leaves 

 of the Palmyra tree, procured from a brahmin living in the family of the 

 Raja of Puttia Sarengerh, one of the branches of the royal house of Orissa. 

 Less certain and trust- worthy guides than the above, are to be met with in 

 the numerous Genealogies, or Bansabali Pothis, as they are vulgarly term- 

 ed, possessed by nearly every Panjia or Almanac maker in the province. 

 They in general abound with errors and inconsistencies, but occasionally a 

 few facts or illustrations may be gleaned from them. 



Conformably with the notion, above stated, of the existence of a great 

 empire at Delhi, to which all other Rajas stood in a vassal and feuda- 

 tory relation, the annals of Orissa commence with the death of Krishna, 

 the opening of the Cali yuga or evil age, 3001 B. C. and the reigns of Jo- 

 jishtee Deo, or Yudhisht'hira, Parikshita and Janamejaya. Twelve years 

 after the setting in of the Gali yuga, in the month of Cheyte, when the 

 Wioon was in the lunar mansion or Nakshatra called Purv Asarh, at the 

 moment of the rising of the seven Rishis, or constellation, called the Great 

 Bear, Parikshita the son of Abhimanyu and grandson of Arjun, is said to 

 have ascended the imperial throne of India. He reigned 757 years, and his 

 son Janamejaya 512 years. There is an ancient temple at Agrahat in 

 killah Daljura about eight miles north of the town of Cuttack, which the 

 brahmins of the place say was visited by this Raja Janamejaya daring 

 his progress over India, with all the feudatory Rajas of the country in 

 Jus train ; and they point out the spot where he performed the sacrifice 

 for the destruction of serpents ? to revenge the death of his father. The 

 circumstance merits notice from its tallying with a somewhat similar tra- 

 dition, recorded in an inscription at Bednore, communicated to the Asia- 

 tic Society by the late Colonel Mackenzie, (vide Researches, vol. ix.) 

 pnd what is further curious connected with the place, is, that the ground 



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