Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c9.5

c9.5

“It having been foretold,” say the chronicles, “to a king of Kúj’rat, or Gujerat, that his kingdom would decay and go to ruin altogether, the Prince resolved to send his son to Java, and, possessing the written account of Aji Sâka, which had been preserved in his family, he gave it to his son and embarked him, with about five thousand followers, for that island. Among these followers were people skilled in agriculture, artificers, men learned in medicine, able writers, and military men.