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■ around is strewed with numerous small stone pillars, shaped like temples in 

 miniature about three feet long-, exactly resembling those found in Khurda 



•at an acknowledged seat of Jain worship, which the brahmins of Agiahat 

 say amounted formerly to several hundreds, and were set up by Raja Jana- 

 mejaya to commemorate the great sacrifice there performed ; or according 

 to other accounts, to stand as substitutes for those Rajas or Vassal Lords 

 of India, who were not in attendance at the ceremony. 



After these celebrated heroes of Indian antiquity, we have a list of other 

 Princes, whose names I have no where else met, viz. eight Rajas who reign 

 for the moderate space of 1G36 years. Many of them are obviously merely 

 Rajas of the province, but in relating the succession of reigns, no dis- 

 tinction is drawn between those personages who were local or dependant 

 princes, and those whom it is intended to represent as the monarchs of a 

 large part of India. Goutama Deo, the second in succession from Jana- 

 mejaya is said to have added the country from the Mahendra Mali hills 

 in Ganjam, as far as the Godaveri, to his dominions. Mahendra Deo, his 

 son, founds Raj Mahendri or Rajamundry. Shewak Deo, a very religious 

 Prince is assiduous in his devotion at the temple of Jagannath. In the 

 reign of Bajranath Deo, the Yavanas are said to invade the country in great 

 numbers from Babul Des, explained to mean Iran and Cabul, but they are 

 finally driven back. Then follows an incomprehensible story, involving 

 some strange anachronism, about Imarut or Himarut khan, who comes from 

 Delhi with a large army and fights the Raja. His successor, Sarsankh Deo, 

 a warlike prince, is attacked by another Khan, whose name is variously 

 written, and always so incorrectly spelt, that it is impossible to unravel it. 

 The Raja defeats the invader and emboldened by his success, advances 

 upon Delhi, and reduces a great part of the country. In the reign of Hans 

 or Hangsha Deo, the Yavanas again invade the country in great force from 

 Cashmir, and many bloody battles ensue. 



Respecting these Yavanas, who are so often mentioned In the legendary 



