That is: “King _Hasti_ built a city, and therefore it was called _Hastinapuri_, from king Hasti.” Its inhabitants, and in all probability some of its kings, were once subdued by the Assyrians: afterwards they fell under the dominion of Cyrus, to whom they were obliged to pay tribute. The celebrated Indian kings known by the names of _Pandu_, _Pando_, or _Pandavi_, resided thirteen months in the city of _Hastinapuri_. They lived 1550, and not 3102, years before the birth of Christ, as Mr. Wilkins erroneously asserts. It appears from my copy of the work called _Bharada_, written on palm leaves, that _Hastinapuri_ existed a long time before these _Pandos_ or _Pandavi_, and was built at least 2000 years before Christ, consequently must be of the same antiquity as the Assyrian monarchy. The consort of king Hasti was named _Ashodara_, and was a daughter of king _Trigarta_. They had a son called _Vikugnen_, who married _Sumanda_ a daughter of king _Dashahanda_[28]. The city _Dionysiopolis_, mentioned by Ptolemy and Arrian[29], is _Nisa_, the city of _Devanishi_, that is of Dionysius, or the Indian Bacchus. In the Samscred language it is called _Shrinagari_, which signifies the city of the celebrated, the fortunate, or the blessed Bacchus[30]. It is called also _Nishadabury_ or _Naishadabur_, that is, the city _Nisa_. It lies in the latitude of 31°, on the river _Allakandara_, which discharges itself into the Ganges. According to the assertion of St. Jerome, it was built by Bacchus 550 years after the birth of Abraham. _Pallibothra_ was likewise built by Bacchus. That city, however, is neither the present _Patna_ on the Ganges, as Major Rennel pretends, nor _Eleabad_, or _Allahabad_, which lies also on the Ganges, in the latitude of 25 degrees and some minutes; but _Pallipatur_, now a small town on the river _Yamunà_, at its influx into the Ganges, in the latitude of 26°. Robertson and D’Anville, who assert that _Pallibothra_ is the present _Eleabad_, or _Allahabad_, deserve no credit; because these appellations are of Persian and not of Indian extraction[31]. _Benares_, _Venares_, or _Kasi_, a celebrated temple, together with an academy and an observatory, is situated on the Ganges, in the latitude of 25°, and is the _Cassidia_ of the ancients[32]. _Ayodhya_, an ancient Indian city, where the first Indian monarchs on the Ganges resided, was situated on the river _Deva_, in the latitude of 25°, exactly in the spot where _Faizabad_ now stands. It was the birth-place of _Shiràna_, or _Rama_, an Indian hero, or the younger Bacchus, whose heroic achievements were celebrated in songs before the times of the Pagan Indians.