The Ancient Geography of India. I. The Buddhist Period, including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang c5.s2.t1.3

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According to the chronology of the ‘Raja Tarangini,’ the king of Kashmir in A.D. 631 was *Pratâpâditya*; but the mention of his maternal uncle§ shows that there must be some error in the native history, as that king’s father came to the throne in right of his wife, who had no brother. *Pratâpâditya’s* accession must, therefore, have taken place after Hwen Thsang’s departure from Kashmir in A.D. 633, which makes an error of three years in the received chronology. But a much greater difference is shown in the reigns of his sons *Chandrapida* and *Muktapida*, who applied to the Chinese emperor for aid against the Arabs.|| The date of the first application is A.D. 713, while, according to the native chronology, *Chandrapida* reigned from A.D. 680 to 688, which shows an error of not less than twenty-five years. But as the Chinese annals also record that about A.D. 720 the emperor granted the title of king to *Chandrapida*, he must