1850.] 



of Continental India, Sfc, 



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who he was, cannot by Hindu records be determined ; but we have 

 here an indication (if the conjecture be accurate) that the hill town 

 and fortress of Mandu, was his capital, as Ougein (ujjaina) was of his 

 prostrated rival Vicramaditya. Mandu, beyond its existence, and 

 its magnificent ruins, i's otherwise unknown to Europeans ; we know 

 that it was, and was evidently the seat of some great power ; and 

 that is all. If that were the capital of Raja Sulan, (that is Saliva- 

 kana ) then a ray of day-light beams on the past, as to this very ob- 

 scure subject. 



According to the Malay annals Raja Sulan soon died, after hav- 

 ing appointed in his own place Raja-Suren the second son of Raja- 

 Narsa (before called Tarsia) Raja-Suren conceived the design of con- 

 quering China. In prosecution of this design, he set out, and first 

 encountered the Gangga Nagara Raja. This may indicate the Ra- 

 ja of Gaur, on the Ganges. After cutting off the head of that Raja 

 his subjects submitted, and the conqueror married the daughter of 

 the deceased Raja. He then went against the Klang Kins (that is I 

 presume the Gating a Cilinges* who had a fort of blackf stone : 

 sienitic granite) a word which is not unlike UranJcal or Warankal, 

 the name of a peculiar stone or rock, on which a fortress was built, 

 that gave its name to the Warankal kingdom. The name of the Raja 

 of this country was Ckulen: in a desperate engagement Raja Chulen% 

 was killed, and the country submitted to Suren. Raja Suren married 

 the daughter of the deceased monarch ; and ultimately returned to 

 Kling, where he founded a city of great size, famous under the name 

 of Bisnagur,^ and still a greater city in the land of Kling. Raja-Su- 

 ren had a daughter (of whom nothing further is mentioned)|| by his 

 marriage with the daughter of Raja Chulen ; and, by the sister of 

 the Gangga Nagara Raja he had three sons named Bichitram-shah } 

 Palidutani, and Nitumanam. 



* Which is said to have been, in former times, a great country, 

 t Perhaps here is a mistake, Karangkal is a blackish stone. 



+ The Ghola king did conquer the country of Calinga and maintain an ascendancy there for 

 some time. 



§ There were two towns of the name, and the one designated must be Vizianagaram, in 

 Telingana ; though confounded in the Malay annals, with Vijayanagaram or Bisnagar, (on 

 the banks of the Tumbudra river ). 



|| Suren is a name, that of an amra, extremely familiar to Hindu mythology. Among the 

 Mackenzie M.^.S. are found vestiges of a combat between one so named, and an early Chalet 

 king; but ending in Suren' x defeat. 



