ON OBISSA PROPER 



Mahindra Deo, - *- » * - , .- -'-..-; - 215 



Ashti Deo, --__„.......,.•- 534 



Shewak or Ashok Deo, -.„.,---... ]5o 



Bajra Nath, -------.---- J07 



Sarsankh, --_.-.....-....,. 115 



Hansh or Hansa, --».--.---,-- ]22 



Bhoja, ----_„„,--_-_ J27 



Vicramaditya, -__...,..•.,.„_» 135* 



Total 3,173 years. 



After that event, the sera of Salivahana which dates its commencement 

 from A. D. 77 in Orissa, is used in all the accounts, and we now come to 

 reigns of a probable and moderate duration, the first dawning of an ap~ 

 proach to the authentic period of the native history. 



The Raj Charitra goes on to state, " Afterwards Karmajit, (Cramaditya,,) 



t, 



" son of the above, (Query, Vicramaditya?) ruled over Or Desa or Orissa, 

 "He was devoted to the worship of Jagannath and died A. S. 65." Then 

 follow four unimportant reigns remarkable only for mention of invasions 

 by the Yavanas. The Rajas names are as follows : 



Bato Kesari, .reigns 

 Tirbhobun Deo, 



Years, 

 51 

 43 



<t It may be observed that a list of this description uniformly introduces the genealogies of every 

 race of princes in the Dekhin, and originates with an attempt to fill up a blank in the local histories, 

 with persons borrowed from the Puranas or from traditiop. Jfh.e age of Bhoja is now well established 

 as being assignable to the ninth or tenth century, this being made therefore anterior to Vicramaditya 

 ■who lived before our aera shews with what imperfect knowledge of dates and persons these lists are 

 compiled; neither was a son of Bhoja named Vikrama which might form a plausible excuse for the 

 confusion, it being ascertained by inscriptions, older probably than these lists, that the sou and succes- 

 sor of that prince was named Kalabhoja. In point of history and chronology however neither Vicrama 

 aor Bhoja have any connexion with the dynasties in which the Chroniclers of the Peninsula hav§c!a$ 

 jelled them, — Note by the Secretary. 



