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king of Kananj —is translated into Chinese "by “ increase of the 
king,” not “ kingdom.” We know, from the llarslia-charita, that 
llajyavardhana had a sister Eajyas'ri. 
Take, again, Sou-lou-lc' in-na. M. Julien is positive, that this group 
of syllables stands for Srughna, — a region of whose position there is no 
warrant for any unhesitating assertion. It is just as likely, equally 
on graphical grounds, and on geographical, that the territory meant 
is S'rikantha. In the first place, S'rfkantha would as naturally be 
softened into four syllables as Srughna into the same number. That 
Hiouen-Thsang was capable of mistaking the dental sibilant for the 
palatal, we see in his Subliavastu for S'ubhavastu, SIta for S'ita, &c. 
&c. The element s'ri, before being submitted to transliteration, was 
probably lengthened and dentalized — nearly as we hear it vulgarly 
uttered in the present day — to sari. Tor the sa of Tamrasavana, we 
have, in Chinese, sou. Lou,— see Metliode, &e., pp. 148, 149— is equiva- 
lent to hi, hi, and ra. Why not to ri also ? IP in is the same as ham 
in hambala, and kin in hinnara ; and lean is here a sort of medium. 
As for m, if, among its vagaries, it takes the place of da in Chanda, 
it is no very violent supposition, that it may do duty for tlia. The 
fact is, that M. Julien has to deal, in Sou-lou-k' in-na, with combi- 
nations which ill authorize him to pronounce as if it could infallibly 
be read into Srughna. 
With reference to Po-ni there is also deficiency somewhere. M. 
Julien allows us to elect between Bam, Bhani, and Bhani, in the 
Sanskrit. In his Methode, &c., p. 175, he leaves it to be gathered, 
that Po-ni acts for b(mi, “ language but he gives no authority. On 
his own showing, Po-ni may likewise be for the correct Sanskrit vdni, 
or for p Ani, &c. &e. And why has he not translated the Chinese render- 
ings of Po-ni, Ming-liao and Pien-liao ? Professor Lassen puts Banin, 
and adds : “ Dieses ist die richtigere Herstellung dieses Namens • 
Banin bedeutet auch lledner ; die gewohnliche Form ist Vanin ; in 
der Lebensbeschreibung lautet er Bhani.” Indische Alterthumslcunde, 
Vol. III., p. 673, second foot-note. In truth, as I have shown, we 
should read Bhandin. See my Preface to the Y&savadatta, p. 52. 
So long as M. Julien has to do with Chinese barbarizations of 
significative words from the Sanskrit, and is aided by analytical or 
other translations of them, he may be followed with full reliance. 
