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oracles and miracles is past ;" and even the new wheel that was miraculously 

 applied each revolving year to supply the place of that which first indicated 

 Crishna's desire to abide at Nat'hdwara, is no longer furnished. The old 

 one which was the signal of his wish, is, however, preserved as a holy relic, 

 and held in great reverence. The statue now worshipped at Nat'hdwara 

 as the representative of " the god of the mount," is said to be the identical 

 image first raised to Crishna in the cave of Girdhana, and brought thence 

 by the high priest Balba Acharya. 



As the destroyer of Kali-nag, ' the black serpent,' which infested the 

 waters of the Yamuna, Kaniya has the character of the Pythic Apollo. 

 He is represented dragging the monster from the ' black stream ' (Kali- 

 Yaniuna), and bruising him with his foot. Crishna had however many 

 battles with his hydra foe ere he vanquished him, and he was once driven by 

 Kal-yamun from Vrij to Dwarica, whence his title of Rinchor, as " aban- 

 doning the fight." Here we have the old allegory of the schismatic wars of 

 the Buddhists and Vishnues. 



Diodorus informs us tiiat Ka7i was one of the titles of the Egyptian 

 Apollo ; and this is the common contraction for Kaniya. The colour of 

 the Hindu Apollo is a dark cerulean blue {nila') : hence he is occasionally 

 called Nila-nat'ii, ' the blue god, 'as well as Sham-nat'h, ' the black god,' 

 and he is invariably represented with the lotus in his hand j and like the 

 Apollo of the Nile, Kaniya is depicted with the human form and eagle- 

 head, one of the common hieroglyphic deities of Egypt. 



Sham-nat'h and Shi-nat'h, the black divinity, are the commonest epithets 

 of Crishna, which name likewise means ' black.' It is curious that his 

 cotemporary and relative Nem-nat'h, the twenty-second high priest of 

 Buddha, was also designated from his black colour, Arisht Nemi : are we to 

 brino- both from the Nile, or to send them there from tiie Indus ? S and H 

 are permutable letters in the Bhakka, and Sam or Sham, the god of the 

 Yamuna, may be the Ham or Hammon of Egypt. The most marked resem- 

 blances may be traced between the Ramcsa of Ayodhia, and the Rameses 

 of Egypt ; and Heri, the Indian Apollo, accompanied Ramesa to Lanka, 

 as did the Egyptian Apollo, Rameses, Sesostris on his expedition to India. 

 The Hindu Ramesa in all the mythological paintings is of the same blue 

 colour as Crishna ; both were attended in their expedition by an army of 

 Satyrs, or tribes bearing the names of different animals : and as we have 

 the Anvi'tts, tlie Takshacs, and the Sassus of the Yadu tribes, typified under 



