1 THE
2 LORDS OF THE HILLS;—
3 A
4 GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE JUMMOO FAMILY.
5 CHAPTER I.
6 According to various old Sanscrit manuscripts, corrobo-
7 rated by numerous incidents and historical facts in the traditional
8 leg-ends of the family, about 471 years before the time of the
9 great Vikramadita, and about the time of Kyroo (Cyrus) and
10 his vast and great conquests,* at which period a great
11 commotion and stir seems to have been excited throughout
12 all Ind or Hind, and bold adventurers to have been enticed
13 from different parts of the far South and East : — about this
14 * Numerous native traditions and fables speak of the wars of Kyroo, and by all
15 those accounts he may be supposed to have extended his conquests somewhat more
16 eastward than the Indus. We may appropriate some of the native names of his
17 successors as follows :— Cyrus, B. C. 536, Kyroo Badsha ; Cambyses, B. C. 529,
18 Kome Badsha ; Smerdis, one of the magi, B. C. 523, Moordoo ; Darius, son of
19 Hystaspes, Daroo Badsha ; Xerxes the Great, B. C. 486, Keeroo or Keroon ; —
20 Artaxerxes, B. C. 665, unmentioned. Xerxes 2nd, B. C. 424, unmentioned ; Sogdianus,
21 B. C. 424 ; Sooje Badsha ; Ochus or Darius the Bastard, B. C. 423, Daroo Nauk,
22 or Na Hok ; Artaxerxes. Ochus, B. C. 405, unmentioned; Arses or Arsames, B
23 C. 306, unmentioned; Darius Codomanus, B. C. 336, Daroo Shuko or Shukust, being
24 beaten and conquered by Alexander or Sccunder Badsha, B. C. 331.