ferable to another, m aster: murder was not punished, by death, but by a
heavy fine, and perpetual'Servitude in the family of the deceased* This code
A jiS d ka ;is represented-to have reformed; and an abstract*'collection'of
ordinances, said to have been made from his instructions, is believed'to have’
been in use as late as the time, of Janggdla (A.D. 900),. and .even‘of
Mqjapahit (A.D: 1800)r;iii
In the Sanscrit language Sdka means an era, and is applied to the founder
of amrsera ;1 and in the; chronology of the ."Hindu princes ó f India, Sdka
is a name or. titlè; which has so often bfeen assumed, that it-is sufficient to say
to-whom' it ds.. most appropriately due. According J o Sir William" Joheë,’
Sdka is name ;of Budha. In the.cbgonológy.öfi'thè kings xdMagddha, * by
Major Wilford; the .Hindus are stated to have.divided the Kaliyuga.dnfe six
unequal .portions,1, of subordinate periods, called Sdkas, because they derived
their origin from six Sdkasj or. mighty and| glorious. inonarchsi óf whom
three have already made their appearance and.three are still expected. The
third Sdka.was Salavahana, .who is believed to !have. lived;at the*same tiine
with our Saviour, and is represented to havè’.eèrrespohded with him in some
of‘the principal :featiires :of :his life. J.The era .which bears, his. naxdècom-
menced fromhis death (namely,!.seventy-eight years after, the Christian era)f
and is doubtless that; adopted by. the. Javans, which .' corresponds with* it
within about three years: and the slight I difference -betwéen' them Jnay he
accounted for> by the introduction of the Mahometan mode .of reckoning
during the last three, centuries. . .
The same writer informs us, that the first Bala Tlcga, a title peculiarly
given-: to the ancient 'sovereign^.of Gruj-rat, and who is.''supposed to have
lived in the seventh century o f the Christian, era, was called Di Sdka, Or
Déva Sdka ; which being also one of. the titles of: Salivahana, might induce
an opinion that they were the same person,rdf; as Major -Wilford' acknowledges,
the confusion and uncertainty of the Hindu records did not almost
deter us from forming any fixed opinion'.whatever. According to the Japanese
historians, Sdka lived a thousand years, before .our Saviour'-; and“ the
worship of that country is still denominated by them the religion of Sdka or
SidkaA :
According/ however,.. to a prophetic chronology of the Javans, which
is now in the possession of the Stisuhunan, and is ascribed to the pen of the
m
Asiatic Researches. + Kempfer’s Japan, vol. i, p. 148.
A jï day a rBdya, but •i&'dohbfetejssrïoftfa.more modern; composition; :the sup-
posed^airijyal of ^.jijSdka dij^wLt’a^lplacetill af?ei%?eyear 1000. In this
chronology, the' author ,himself>isjd'es'cribed. as.'sovereign 'ofs Kedirt in the
year.SQO ofrthe Javan, era*.*1 -
pi “ What-wasc%st known of A v ad i:sa y^M *^ d u n^ )‘‘. was a range-of
“ hills,: called-é^^wh^Jicenrfa^j^whichk.extei^^l^ohg^theiiifofth and. south
“,icoasts;.it was .then, that thé j island first came- iptorr nutiae, and at that
“ pmiodjdorarnenced the^Javan. era......
A flm-this the E^incev.ol*5oh.se^-tWeqi^tIiciusa,hd:'families: to people a»“0 i*
Java; but a ll p f'fhem-perished,«e^^pi*iwëiify.families?"wfaó .returned ’ to
ff-JMom.. jj
;> “ In this, year, twenty thpusjind families were sent Jo Java by the. Prince ~ 10i
of A/mg'(India). / These people'prospered rand multiplied* h'Theyftponti-
.nqed^^however, in an uncivilized .staterr^lhxthej year: %fk9,l when dhe _
“ Almightyfjhles§ed them with a_pritice,, named Kdnog who.reignéd fo^one — 3P.
/“ -hundred "years, atxthe rend: oft which period’'&[ was^sUSCfsededihy Barn
Kétiv : of he i n‘ame;(‘of- .thei. sovereignty- was called 'iWirdta. :Bdsu\ Kéti
i“ dying, heL was,, succeeded bycMsrsón, ' Mdngsa Bdü. The father and ‘son
$£ .together reigned three hundred-years- .
Another principality, named Astina, sprung up at this time, and was — W&
•“ ruled "by a prince, called Pula Sara,' who. w a s i succeeded, by'-his/son
■ Abidsd, who was ‘again ’suéfceededï'-by^his^sóh' Pdndu Déwa~N.dta the
^ “reigns óf the last three princes'1' together amounting ffoj ope hundred
“ years..
: “ Then* sucmeede'd Jdya Bay a himself, who removed the seat Lof .gwern- “ 8®°-
•“ ment from’ Astina to Kediri.
t ‘«-'Tfae kingdom’^of -Kediri being dismembered-öir'thé death ofdtgs'SoVe;- .
«< reign, there.arosp-pjft, b fjtsju in s two.other kingdqmsv,the bob called
Brambdnan, of which the prince was B 4ka-, other Béng’ging
t« of which the prince’s name was Angling Dria.
- “ These two ptifices-having gone to war "with each other, Baka was killed
“ in battle by Ddmar Maya, thè son-in-law of Angling Dria. the death
1 of Bdka, the-kingdom of Brambdnan was without a prin'ce, and continued
‘‘ sOy Xdl AngUng Dria dying a natural death, Ddmar Maya £pcpe§ded. him
“ and> ruled the country.
‘ “ Ddmar Maya dying, and the sovereignly becoming extinct, th^ e arrived 1<K>&
“ from a foreign country a person named Aji Sdka, who established himself .
“ as