1892.] 
W. Hoey —Set Mahet. 
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to see liow in either case the name of the city could have been derived 
from that of the river. The connection of any of these with Savitar 
the sun-god is equally unobvious. I have only to add that Fa Hian 
calls the city Shewei while Hwen Thsang calls it Shylofasiti. 
It has been supposed that the city mentioned by Ptolemy under the 
name of Sapolis is Sravasti. The suggestion has arisen probably by 
taking the Pali Sa and joining it to the Greek—-polis (city) as a sub¬ 
stitute for—vasti—vastu—vatthi. However neat this conception may 
be, I think we must discard it. Ptolemy mentions four cities : Boraita 
( v . 1. Boraila), Sapolis, Eorta and Rappha, lying west of the river 
Sarabos. We know that Sarabos is the Sarayu or Ghagra which appears 
in Pali as Sarabhu. It seems that Ptolemy received the Pali form and 
wrote Sarabos as the Greek equivalent, but the position of the four cities 
with reference to the river forbids our taking Sapolis as a rendering of 
Savatthi. The four cities must, I think, be looked for in the Ganges— 
Ghagra Duab. 
The earliest data which we have connected by tradition with Sra¬ 
vasti are derived, according to some, from the poetical accounts of the 
Aswamedha of Yudislithir given in the Mahabharata and the Jaimini 
Bharata or Jaimini Aswamedha. Unfortunately I have not a copy of 
the former at hand, but I have consulted what purports to be a Hindi 
rendering of the latter. To it therefore I confine myself, and I must 
correct a mistake into which General Cunningham and Mr. Benett have 
fallen when they accepted a lame tradition and gave a line of Gauda 
or Gonda rajas : 
A. D. 900. 1. Mayura-dhwaja or Mora-dhwaja. 
925. 2. Hansa-dhwaja. 
950. 3. Makara-dhwaja. 
975. 4. Sudhanwa-dhwaja. 
1000. 5. Suliil-dal-dliwaja (contemporary of Mahmud). 
The Jaimini Bharata mentions several kings and their kingdoms 
into which the famous steed Shyamkaran found his way. Among 
others he came to the country of Raja Hansa-dhwaj whose capital was, 
as given in the Jaimini Bharata, Champakapuri. Local tradition has 
transformed the name to Chandrikapuri. Arjun was commanding the 
force which followed the horse. Hansa-dhwaj was for submitting to a 
peace, but he was overruled by his queen, who said Krishna would come 
and a view of the divine being be vouchsafed in the battle. The kino* 
had two sons, Surath and Sudhanya, who both perished in the fight, but 
the latter left his wife pregnant and she bore a son, Bibek, who conti¬ 
nued the royal line. The contest was in truth unequal from the first, as 
might be expected when Arjun was aided by Krishna. The king’s army 
