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vana, he was reftored to the flower of his age with the graces and charms of 

 Ca'maue va. On his return' to the palace, he entered, the ' : fecrefr apart- 

 ments, called antabpura,. Where the fifty princefles were affembled ';. and they 

 were all fo tranfported with the vifion of more than, human, beauty,, that 

 they fell into, an ecjlafy, whence' the place was afterwards named Mdba-Jl'Bdn 

 or Mdhana, and is, poffibly, the fame wit}*' -Mohanrian:, they no fooner had^ 

 recovered from their trance, than each of them exclaimed, that me would be 

 his bride, j and, their altercation hiding brought Hiranyaverna into their 

 apartment, he terminated the conteffc by giving them all in marriage to RisHi- 

 ce'sA, who became the father of a hundred fans; and, when he fucceeded 

 to the throne, built the city of Sue haver ddbaria> framed vim anas or celeitial 

 felf-moving cars, in which' he vifited the -Gods, and. made gardens abound- 

 ing in delights, which rivalled the bowers of IndrjS j. but, having gratified 

 the defire, which he formed at Matfyafangama,. or trie '.place,, where the 'fijh 

 Were ajfembled, he refigned the kingdom to his eldefl fon HiR A'NVA^idbha,' 

 and returned in his former fbape to the banks of the Cah> ■ where 1a8J&h$s£. 

 his days in devotion* : ' ' '■' -'■ •■-■ f > 5 &y{n ' >. ?; : :.. ■' 



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 VII. A very communicative Pandit having told me a fhort ftory, 

 which belongs to the fubject of this feciiohj it feems propef to menti :>n it, 

 though T do not know, from what .Pur an i t is taken. A^uMa'tri* thfe 

 fifth in d'efcent from At Ri before named; was performing religious rites 

 on the Devdnka mountains near the fite of the modem Cabul, when a heroy 

 whofe name was Tulya, defired his fpiritual advice; informing him, that 

 he had juft completed the cohqueft of Barbara; fubdued the Syamamuc'bas, 

 who lived to the eaft of the river Call, aw&' overcome, the* Save. bay an as, but 

 that To great an effufioh of blood* foF the 0ke of dominion and fame, had 

 ftained his foul with a finful impurity, which, he was defimus of expiating-.: 



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