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 KINGS OP KismifBA. 3 tlicra by writing their histories. I bow to the poeJi'M tjfeat art withowtTffhich the world is dark. [ The author has takon grea^ pains to fix the date of the original dynasty. We have giveu his elaborate arguments combating certain then-existing errors on the subject, as vyill as our calculations fixing the dates of the different reigns and events as deduced from the author's date, in Appendix A. Translator.} Kashmira is studded with high, cliffs, and cannot & conquered even by the strength of a good army ; and the people are afraid of nothing but of the future world. In winter there are hot baths by the river, in summer the cool river-banks ; and the rivers nro calm, and not infes- ted with water animals. It is a country where the sun shines mildly, boiug the place croated by Kashaynpa as if for his gWfy. High school-houses, the saffron, iced water, and grapes, which are rare even yi heaven, are common hero. "Kailfisa is the best place in the tbreu worlds, Himalaya the best part of Kailasa, and Kfishniii-u the best place in Himalaya. The following is a list of gods and holy things which existed in Kashmira from tlfe earliest time : — Au wooden image of Shiva, the destroyer of vice, to touch whioh is to gam salvation ; A* current of water which flows at evening over a hill. TAiis can be se'eu by the virtuous, but not by the vicious ;