144 Lieut,-Colonel Ton’s Comparison of the Hindu and Theban Hercules. 
** Bacchus or Triptolemus made a conquest of them; who built them cities, 
“ gave them laws, taught them agriculture, the use of wine, as he had the 
« Greeks, and to yoke their oxen to the plough. He also instructed them 
“‘ in military discipline, the worhip of the gods to be performed with drums 
* and cymbals, and introduced the satyric dance, and to suffer their hair 
“ to grow.” 
The whole of this relation is in perfect accordance with the traditional 
cosmography of the Jains or Budhists of India, Their Adna?h, or Buidha, 
the patriarch of the Yadu race, is the counterpart of this Bacchus, or Trip- 
tolemus, whom they bring from central Asia, to espouse Ella, daughter of 
Surya, and sister of Manu, or Menes, the first sovereign of India. Some of 
the laws of Triptolemus, the first lawgiver of Greece, have a remarkable 
affinity to those of the Jains, especially that first commandment common 
to both—* Thou shalt kill no living thing.” The Jains say this Adnath 
taught every art enumerated by Arrian, “ even to muzzling the ox, and 
treading out the corn;” though the orgies of the agricultural divinity, 
Bacchus, the satyric dance with drum and cymbal, rather appertain to the 
Ad-iswar of the Sivites, whose rites are thus administered.* 
Chap. viii—** When Bacchus was about to leave the country, he ap- 
“* pointed Spartembas to govern, who dying was succeeded by Bupyas 
“ (Bsdvav); he by Crasprvas (Kpaodcvey); and so in succession, from father 
“toson. The Hercules who penetrated so far, the Indians tell us, was 
“a native of their country. He is particularly worshipped by the 
“* Suraséni, who have two great cities, Meruoras (M:4op), and CLEIsoBoRUS 
“ (KaAsooGopx), and the navigable river Jopares (JwSepys), passes through 
“¢ their territories. This Hercules, as Megasthenes asserts, and the Indians 
“ themselves assure us, uses the same habit with the Theban Hercules.” 
Here we have Bidha, the progenitor of the whole Jndu or Yadu 
race, and in Crasdevas, the Croshta, or Croshtdeva, the branch from which 
the Hericulas are descended. Baldeva, whose effigies are on the gem 
before us, is the Hindu Hercules; his name signifying the god (Déva) 
of strength (dala). The city sacred to him, and called after him Baldeva 
(fam. Buldeo), is in the very heart of the Sviraséni, and there he continues 
toreceive worship, as in the days of Alexander, and ages anterior. ‘This 
town is therefore the Heraclea, as he is the Hercules of the Stiraséni. 
* There is little doubt that these sects closely approximated at the most remote periods. 
