na, Sakuntala and Dushyanta, and the destruction of Sum b ha and Nisumbha, by Dettt. 2?oo& 5. — Contains the substance of the first sec* tion of the Ram ay ana and the legend of Daks ha 9 s sacrifice. • Book 6 — -Contains a description of the seven continents, and the nine divisions of Jambu dtvipa, with the origin of Nireda, and the stories of Veni ' and Prithu Rajas. Book 7. — Contains an account of the Fourteen Manwantaras, and legendsof various celebrated indi- viduals in different periods, as DuroasasJDhruva, Ha~ rischandrd, Bhrigu, Sukadeva and others — in esti- mation chiefly with the Vaishnava sect, with which this work is a text book in the Mahratta districts. By Krishna Yajnawalki. VI.— Kdlikd Purdna. a. paper— b. ditto. An extensive work, containing a series of legends, partly peculiar and partly Pauranic, belonging to the Jaina sect, and supposed to be narrated by Gau- tama to Srenika. Amongst the various anachro- nisms and misrepresentations it contains, is an ac- count of Timur king of Delhi who was taken pri- soner by Himavdn king of Haimavati, and who es- caping to the king of Beder, received from the lat- Vol. II. o
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