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between Pulikesi II and his son Vikramaditya I, connects them with those two kings, by tradi tion, in a sufficiently reliable manner to justify us in assuming that they were two of the three confederate kings. But, whatever opinion may be held as to these two points, we have the
clearest evidence that there was a confederacy of sore three kings, which interrupted the Chalukya supremacy for a while, at least over part of their dominions, after the death of Pulikësi II," but which at length was broken by Vikramaditya I.
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BY HENRY H. HOWORTH, F.S.A.
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History of China. It is well to explain why it We have now reached a period of Chinghiz deserves this distinction. Joseph-Anne Marie Khan's career when other authorities begin to de Moyriac de Mailla was a French Jesuit be of value. Of these I would especially refer to attached to the Peking Mission. He translated three, all of them of Chinese origin. The first a famous history of China called Tong-kienof them is entitled Huang-yuan-sheng-wu-ts'in- kang-mu, whose composition he has described at cheng-lu, i. e. "a record of Chinghiz Khân's some length in his preface. It was originally warlike doings." This work has apparently composed by Fan-tsa-yu (president of the Trinever been printed, but the Archimandrite Palla- bunal of History) and Se-ma-kuang,and extended dius to whom we owe it that the Yuan-ch'ao-pi-shi from the year 208 B.c. to 960 A.D. To it were was made accessible, possessed a MS. copy from afterwards added the histories of the Sung and which he published a translation in the Russian Yuan dynasties. The work was held in Auch high Oriental Record, vol. I, 1872. The work was repute for its accuracy and solidity that in the apparently compiled from Mongol documents last century the emperor Kang-hi had it transin the first half of the 14th century, but its author lated into Manchu, and De Mailla tells us that is unknown. A friend of mine has favonred his text is derived from a collation of both the me with a translation of Palladius' version. I Chinese and Tartar editions. The part relating shall quote it by its two first words as the Huang- to the Lia, Kin and Yuan dynasties in this yian. The work just cited is frequently quoted work was not very satisfactory, these dynasties in a much better known work, namely the Yuan
being those of foreigners, and when he came shi-lei-pen, an abridged Chinese history of the down to them De Mailla had recourse to other Mongol dynasty, published in 1699 by Kiai- authorities. Shan-shi, the father of Kang-hi, han in 42 chapters. Bretschneider remarks in had caused the histories of these three dynasties reference to it that although only an extract which had been composed by Charbuhai, from the Yuan-shi, it is a very valuable book for Nanta, Hokiton, Lieou-hong-yu, and others to reference, as the learned author has added a be translated into Tartar. This history was great deal of interesting matter drawn for the
drawn up very carefully from anthentio docugreater part from rare works of the Mongol ments, and was of equal authority with the period. The first ten chapters comprising an ex- Tong-kien-kang-mu. De Mailla therefore transtract from the Pen-ki (Annals) of the Yuan-shi lated it in its entirety, and incorporated it in his were translated into French by Gaubil, and work." The whole was edited under the superpublished in 1739 with the title Histoire de intendence of M. Deshautesrayes and the Abbé Gentchiscan et de toute la dynastie des Mongous, Grosier, and was published at Paris in 13 volumes 1739. Gaubil of course lies before me, as in the years 1777-1785. We will now resume does & third and possibly & more important our narrative :work, which I have already frequently quoted We have seen how a rivalry arose between as an independent authority, namely, De Mailla's Chinghiz Khan and his distant relative
* This period coincides with the period of anarchy which followed the death of Harshavardhana in Northern India.-See Vol. IX, p. 20.
Bretachneider, Notices, &c. p. 15.
Id., pp. 13 and 14. 3 Vide vol. I, p. xlii, &c. • Id. p xlvii. • Op. cit., tom. IX, p. 1, note.
