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of Continental India, fyc. 



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* P 388 vndyana. The Becma-Kalantalca* introduces 



Crishna, and other Hindu personages ; and, 

 allowing for a slight orthographical difference, the result of a mis- 

 print, or dialectical variation, Bhumi-Kulantaka, denotes "the des- 

 troyer of the tribes of the earth." The Bra- 



* P 389. 



/a* Yud'ha is the Mahab' 'haraia ; though the 



contents (as may be noticed hereafter) vary from the original. The 



Parakesit* is a poem founded on the tranquil 

 *P. 389. . _ _ . r . , _ A . 1 _ 



reign or Paricshit, grandson ot Arjuna, and 



sovereign of Hastinapuri. But the book is further of historical 

 value, as it gives a list of princes in descent from Paricshit ; the 

 tenth of whom was Aji-Jaya-Baya, otherwise named Aji-Saka, in 

 whose reign an intercourse with Java from AVestern India, it ap- 

 pears, took place ; as will have to be more fully noticed hereafter. 



The Niti Sastra-Kawi* is an ethical poem, 



* P. 390 . ' '. 



which exclusive of its Sanscrit title, is quite 



on the model of Hindu poems of similar kind. Several works, it 



seems, had been recently discovered* at Bali, 



* P. 391. . . . 



the titles of which indicate them to be some 



of the Saiva-agamas. The book termed by Raffles Purva Diarjama, 

 gives a specimen of the way in which titles may be disguised by 

 not understanding them. That title contains three words Purva 

 (ancient,) adi, (original) elementary, or beginning, and agama (book), 

 and by SandJii or coalition of vowels, the title becomes Purvadi- 



yaqama. Among those books the Sastri- 



* P. 392. . ° 



Menava* imitates the title of the Manava- 



Sastra, or " institutes of Menu" though its provisions are local. 

 t 3O0 Of more modern* books properly Javanese it 



is not needful to take special notice ; though 

 several of them have Sanscrit words in their titles. 



* P 410 et sc ana ^ s ^ s * ^ s gi yeu of the Brata yud'ha. 



The dramatis per sonce are those of the Mahab- 

 harata, with a few unimportant differences. The scene is rightly 

 laid in the plain called Kuruksetra ( Curucshetra ) near Astina 

 (Hastinapuri), the place where the great battle was fought. But 

 the popular credence of the Javans fixes the scene in, and around, 



* P 4il Java. They give to the poem the date* 706 



of the Javan era (A. I). 779), while the poem 



