376 ON THE ANCIENT’: 
more generally called Deva-nahusha, and’ Deo-naush,. inothe spoken 
dialects. “He appeais°to\be. the Dionysius, of our ancient. raythologists, 
dnd reigned near mount: Meru, now Mar-coh, to the 8, Ei. of Cabul.. 
Tux fourth ‘is a ‘commentary on the geography of the Maha-bhdrat, 
written by order of the Raja of Paulastya in the peninsula, by a Pandit, 
who resided in Bengal, in the time of Hlussern-sHau, who began his 
reign in the year 1489. It is a voluminous work, most curious, and 
interesting. [tis in my possession, except a small portion towards the end, 
and which I hope to be able to procure. Palibothra is mentioned in it. 
— Tye fifth is the Vicrama-sdgara: the author of it is unknown here: 
however it is often mentioned in the Cshétra-samdsa, which, according to 
the author himself, is chiefly taken from the Vicrama-sdgara... It is said 
to exist still in the peninsula, and it existed in Bengal, m the year 1648. 
It is considered as a very valuable ‘work, and Palihothra ‘is particularly 
mentioned in it, according to: the! author of the Cshdtra-samésa. I have 
only seventeen leaves: of ‘this work,. and they are certainly interesting. 
Some, suppose, that it is as‘old.as ‘the: time of Bucca-raya, that it was 
written by his order, and that the author was a native of the Dekhin. 
~ Bur the'author could not beia native of that country, otherwise, he would 
have given a better description of it; for his account of the country about 
the Sahyddri mountains, of which an extract is to be found in the Cshétra- 
samasa, is quite unsatisfactory, and obviously erroneous even in the general 
outlines. The account he gives of Trichind-valf is much better, and there 
he takes notice of an ancient city, which proves to be the Bata of Protemy, 
