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killed his master, and reigned in his stead, was killed in turn by Sus- 

 aifias (otherwise Su6arman) who ruled 456 years (designating him and 

 his whole dynasty, otherwise stated to have consisted of 21 kings). A 

 servant killed him (his last descendant) and ruled the kingdom, and to 

 him is given a period of 334 years. In his time (or that of his dynasty) 

 the kingdom was reduced to great distress. About that time fourteen 

 females of the four coiours(castes) came to the Triveni (or conjunction of 

 the Ganges, J umna,* and Sarsoostee rivers) at Praijaga, or Allahabad. These 

 while balking as an act of devotion, each one had a secret wish which 

 was sought to be aecon.plished. The wish of one of them was that she 

 might have a son who should be emperor of the world. At the Si me 

 time a pour Bra/inmit'ovmed the wish, while bathing and mediiatiLg the 

 Pranava (or sacred name), that the said woman might be his wife. His 

 wish was accomplished ; and their son was born at Uchchini (Ougein) 

 being the famous Vicramaditija, who married the aforesaid four females, 

 and i-uled 2000 years. (Here again we have the Hindu mystic or enig- 

 matical mode of writing ; it seems to denote, what is more directly stated 

 in other books, that Vicrama was the son of a Brahmaiijhy a woman of 

 inferior tribe, the daughter of the king of Ougein. The marriage of 

 Vicrama to the four females, being disentangled from the possibly inten- 

 tional absurdity, means that he married wives of the four tribes). Subse- 

 quently SaVivaliana fought with, and killed Vicramaditya. Salivahana 

 ruled, on the north side of the Narmati (or NerbuddaJ and had a son 

 named Mani-vahana, and the son of the latter was ^vac^'/^ar ma : some 

 others of the race ruled on the southern side of the Nerbudda. At that 

 time a Rajpoot named Gunfhivi pati ruled on the other side of the said 

 river, and the Mussulmans began there by degrees to acquire jDOAver. 



Subsequently BJioja raja ruled in a large town (nagara) named Bara- 

 nagara (in a Telugu account by Ravipati, the name is written Z)ara pu?-). 

 — The names of eight of his decendants are given as follows : — 



1. Nan da-ray alu 5 years 



2. Uchita-raja 5 years 



3. Dor-ray alu 3 years 



4. Kerula rayalu 4 years 



5. Malata rayalu 9 years. 



6. Varada myalu 6 years. 



7. Vishnu palacu 7 years. 



8. Tiruvapi rayalu 8 years. 



These ruled over the whole of the southern kingdom ; and after them it 

 was divided into two parts. In the Puna Bhaga (or northera partf), Vira 



* Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswaii. 

 f Any mention of the southern division does not appear. 



