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(yipalzvu)/) amongst the early ancestors of the tribe then in power, which 

 would alone convince us that Alexander had access to the genealogies of 

 the Piiranas ; for we can have little hesitation in affirming these to be 

 Buddha and Croshtdeva, ancestors of Crishna ; and that "Mathoras and Cli- 

 sobaras, the chief cities of the Suraseni," are the Mafhura and Siirpurd 

 occupied by the descendants of Sursen, the Suraseni of Arrian. Had the 

 historian afforded as many hints for discussing the analogy between the 

 Hindu and Grecian Apollos as he has for the Hercules of Thebes and India, 

 we might have come to a conclusion that the three chief divinities* of Egypt, 

 Greece, and India, had their altars first erected on the Indus, Ganges, and 

 Jumna. 



The earliest objects of adoration in these regions were the sun and moon, 

 whose names designated the two grand races of antiquity, Surya, and 

 Chandra or Indu. Buddha (^Mercury'), son of Indu, married Ella (Terra), 

 a grand-child of Surya, from which union sprung the Indu race. They 

 deified their ancestor Buddha, who continued to be the chief object of adora- 

 tion until Crishna : hence it appears that the worship of Bal-Nat'hI and 

 BuDDHAt were almost coeval. That the Nomadic tribes of Arabia, as well 

 as those of Tartary and India, adored the same objects, we learn from the 

 earliest writers ; and Job, the probable contemporary of Hasti, the founder 

 of the first capital of the Yadus on the Ganges, boasts in the midst of his 

 griefs that he had always remained uncorrupted by the Sabei'sm which sur- 

 rounded him. " i( I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking 

 in brightness, and my mouth has kissed my hand, this also were an iniquity 

 to be punished by the judge, for I should have denied the God that is 

 above." § That there were many Hindus who, professing a pure mono- 

 theism like Job, never kissed the hand either to the Sun (Suryd), or his 

 herald. Mercury (Buddha), we may easily credit from the sublimity of the 

 notions of the ' One God,' expressed both by the ancients and moderns, 

 by poets and by princes, of both races ;|| but more especially by the sons 

 of Buddha, who for ages bowed not before graven images, and deemed it 



• Hercules, Mercury, and Apollo ; Bala-ram, Buddha, and Kaniya. 



t The ' God Bal,' the Vivifier, the Sun. 



X Buddha signifies ' wisdom.' § Job, ch. xxxi, v. 26, 27, 28. 



II Cii AND, the bard, says, after having separately invoked the three persons of the Hindu triad, 

 tliat he who believes them distinct, " hell will be his portion." 



