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Vishnuvites and the more ancient one of Budha. The 
races who supported the religion of Crishna are typified 
under. his emblem, Garuda, or the eagle; while their 
wily adversary, the Budhist, is figured by the Tacshac, 
Nae or serpent, a denomination given to the races of 
northern or igin, 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 legend 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, we 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 Azzchor 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 Professor 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.” 
