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lection of volcanic disturbances, which have even in the present century 

 affected the neicrhbourhood of the Gulf of Katch : a similar overwhelming 

 of Gokarna on the Malabar coast, and its restoration by Parasu-Rania, 

 is related in a copy of the Brahmanda-Purana which I obtained in 

 South India many years ago : and probably volcanic action was known 

 in past times on the Western coast. But why should everything 

 connected with the earthly history of Krishna end thus abruptly ? It 

 is noticeable that Krishna is the last recorded Avatara of Vishnu ; one 

 more Avatara, the tenth, is to come under the name of Kalki, who will 

 destroy the wicked, and liberate the world from its enemies, putting an end 

 to the present Kali-yuga, or iron age of vice. 



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