1892.] 
W. Hoey —Set Maliet. 
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There are two kings, an uncle, named Khiradhar, and his nephew, 
mentioned as kings of Sravasti between 275 and 319 A. D. in the 
Singhalese records, but they cannot have been possessed of any influence 
fer they have left no monuments and they are wholly unknown to local 
tradition. 
I now pass over the visits of the Chinese pilgrims to Sravasti: Fa 
Hian in 410 A. D., and Hwen Thsang in some year between 629 aud 645 
A. D., for the records of their pilgrimages are in the hands of all. I 
need only notice that, when Hwen Thsang visited Kanauj, the king of 
that place was Harsha Varddhana aud his dominions probably included 
Uttara Kosala. 
In the Dasa Kumara Charitam, a Sanskrit work reasonably assigned 
to the 6th century A. D., we find Sravasti mentioned, and it is said to 
have been the residence of a king named Dharma Varddhana. The work 
is a romance, but it probably contains accurate accounts of places known 
to the author. It is not improbable that Dharma Varddhana was a 
viceroy of the Kannauj sovereign at stationed Sravasti, and that the kings 
of Kanauj had extended their supremacy thus far east at this period. 
Professor Weber gives a summary of the contents of the Dasa Kumara 
Charitam in Indisclie Streifen, Vol. I, pp. 308-351, and I shall here give 
the portion referring to Sravasti, as I wish to omit no reference to the 
city which I can anywhere find. The book is a narrative of the travels 
of the son of the king of Magadha and nine friends of his, who travel 
separately and afterwards meet and narrate their adventures. It ia 
Pramati who visited Sravasti. 
After his separation from his companions, Pramati had come to 
the Vindliya forest, lain down under a tree, committed himself in a pious 
prayer to the care of the goddess of the tree, and fallen asleep. In a 
dream he felt himself lifted up and, opening his eyes, saw himself in a 
magic hall, resting beside a sleeping maiden of marvellous beauty, on 
whom the moon was shedding her rays. Through fear of awaking her 
he does not venture to touch her, and noticing her move he feigns to 
lie asleep. She actually wakes up, gazes in astonishment on the com¬ 
panion of her couch, but soon sinks back again into sleep. He too falls 
asleep. In the morning when he wakes he finds himself shivering with 
cold under the tree in the forest. While he is still thinking over what he 
had seen, a female in celestial guise appears, who embraces him warmly 
and solves the riddle for him. It is his own mother, Taravali, the 
daughter of the Yaksha king Manibhadra, who had left his father, Kama- 
pala, in a hasty passion on some slight provocation, and become possessed 
by an evil spirit for a year by way of punishment. The time was now up 
and slie.was on the point of returning to her husband. Put she had 
