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•quence not now belonging to it. As it is, there are a few historical 

 indications that ought not to be despised, because the whole will not 

 bear the severer tests of western historical writing. These indications 

 are : That Salivahayia was a Sama7ia or <Sava7ia (for the writer, or his 

 copyist, writes the word in both methods) that he persecuted the Brah-' 

 manical religion and patronised another, which for the present I sup- 

 pose to be the J aina system — that an insurrection took place, leading 

 to the destruction of many of his people, but that he himself and his 

 army escaped ; that he overran the country to the south as far as 

 Trichinopoly, which he probably first fortified ; that he had a line of 

 princes of his own posterity succeeding him— that he ruled in a town 

 and fortress of his own construction, not being the capital where Vic- 

 ramadihja ruled before him— that Bhoja raja was perhaps anothe? 

 name by which he was known, or was the name of one of his succes- 

 sors. That as Salivahana stands for the name of a dynasty (like 

 Caesar, Plantagenet, or Bourbon) so perhaps Vicraviaditya may in other 

 books, stand for a dynasty^, and thus help us through the fable of his 

 asserted long reign. These seem to me to be fair inferences, for fuller 

 consideration hereafter. I will add, as mere conjecture, that Samana^ or 

 Savana, as it is often spelt, may possibly be none other than the change 

 of y into J or s which is a very usual one i thus giving us Fava7ia, and 

 if so, then there is a concurrence, with a multitude of other indicationSj 

 as to the interference of the yava7ias,\\ith the greater portion of India, 

 inclusive of the peninsula. For the original of the Tavunas w'S must 

 look most probably to the Bactrians. Besides in the Pa7itacurzii: (for 

 which se^ a following page, MS. Books, No. 14, section 1), we have; 

 the remnants of ancient sepultures, of which the people of the preseni 

 da}'- know nothing, beyond conjecture. They accord with Dr. Mal- 

 colmson*s account of similar ones at Hyderabad (Bengal Asiatic Jour- 

 nal ) and with the contents of the mounds in the Panjab, opened 

 by Hocinberger and others. In the Carnatic they were found in 

 locahties that would rather indicate camps {Castella) than towns. 

 At all events such vestiges are foreign. All Hindu recorda 

 afford traces of foreign interference, which they usually mysti-. 

 fy. The dark and mystified period succeeds the term allotted to 

 Vicra7nadiiya ; and the manner in which Salivahana is spoken of suffi- 

 ciently indicates sectarian hatred, and resolution to conceal the truth. 



The alleged flight by sea, of a portion of the garrison at Trichino- 

 poly, I have not before noticed. It is not however to be entirely dis- 

 regarded. The peopling of «/ata with a race evidently from India^ 

 has to be accounted for ; and the many concurring Hindu traditionst 

 and records, that people were driven from India by wars or persecu- 



