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Vishnuvites and the more ancient one of Budha. The 

 races who supported the rehgion of Crishna are typified 

 under his emblem, Garuda, or the eagle ; while their 

 wily adversary, the Bud hist, is figured by the Tacshac, 

 Naga, or serpent, a denomination given to the races of 

 northern origin, which at various periods overran India, 

 and of which were Taksiles (the friend of Alexander, 

 the site of whose capital is still preserved in the 

 Memoirs of Baber) and the still more famed Tacshac 

 Salivahan, the foe of Vikrama. In the leo'end of the 

 Yadu (Yadava) prince, Crishna (himself a seceder from 

 the faith of Budha Trivicrama to that of Vishnu, if not 

 its founder)," receiving the sacred volumes from his 

 hydra foe at this remote point of Hinduism, as well as 

 his first combat with him in the Jumna, w^e have but the 

 continuance of the same sectarian warfare, in which 

 Crishna was in this instance successful, driving them 

 before him both in the north of India and here : thus, 

 his title of Rinchor was given on his defeat by Jara- 

 sindha, the King of Magadha, of the heretical faith, and 

 at length these religious and civil conflicts led to his 

 death, and the dispersion of the Yadu race of which 

 he was the chief support. These Yadus, I surmise to 

 have been all originally Budhists, and of Indo-Getic 

 origin, as their habits of polyandrism alone would 

 almost demonstrate ; and when we find the best-informed 

 of the Jains assuring us that Nemnat'h, the twenty- 

 second Budha, was not only Yadu, but the near kins- 

 man of Crishna, all doubt is at an end ; and I am 

 strongly inclined to pronounce decidedly, what I have 

 before only suggested, that the Yadus are the Yute, or 

 ancient Getes of the Jaxartes, amongst whom, according 

 to Prolessor Newmann from Chinese authorities, one of 

 the Shamanean sages sprung, eight hundred years 

 before Christ. Both Nemnat'h and Sham-nat'h have 

 the same personal epithets, derived from their dark 

 complexions, the first being familiarly called Arishta- 

 Nemi, 'the black Nemi,' the other Sham and Crishna, 

 both also meaning ' dark-coloured ' ; and when this is 

 not only confirmed by tradition, but the shrine of Budha 

 itself is yet preserved within that of Crishna at Dwarica 

 we have no reason to question that his faith, prior to 

 his own deification, was that of Budha." 



