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the destroyer, corresponds with the Stygian Jove, or Pluto. 
Kali, or 'Time personified, consort of Siva, subsequently to 
appear as Proserpine. Furthermore, in his capacity as re- 
generator or producer, Siva is represented as riding on a 
white bull, a circumstance which leads to the question, does 
the myth typify the approach of Jupiter in the form of a white 
bull to Huropa? Yet another question presents itself: 
Does Mahadeo represented with the trisula prefigure Jupiter 
Marinus, otherwise Neptune with his trident? The venera- 
tion paid all over India to the buccinum or conch-shell, 
especially that m which the convolutions are reversed, 
recalls to mind the musical instrument of the Triton. 
Bhawan, cousort of Mahadeo, has been reproduced, so it 
is at least suggested, in Venus Marina, and the Runbah 
of Indra’s court, who sprang from the froth of the churned 
ocean, in the popular Venus as goddess of beauty, who rose 
from out of the sea foam, also as Juno Canixa or Lucina of the 
Romans. Under the name of Jswara she seems to have 
affinities to Osiris and Jsis of the Egyptians; under that of 
Doorga to resemble Minerva as Pallas, while the unarmed 
Minerva as vatroness of science and genius is considered as 
corresponding to Suruswatee, the daughter of Brahma and 
wife of Vishnu. The Minerva of Athens was named Musica; 
Suruswatee presides over melody, and is usually represented 
with a musical instrument in her hand. 
Cuvera, named also Vetesa and Paneastaya, the Indian 
Plutus, is represented as being borne through the sky in a 
splendid car, and is himself described as “a magnificent 
deity.” 
Cama, or Camadeva, the Indian god of love, was the ideal 
of Cupid, otherwise Lros. The Hindoos represented Cama- 
deva* as riding on an elephant; the ros of the Greeks was 
mounted on a lion. 
Krishna, believed by pious Hindoos to have been an incar- 
nation of Vishnu, and to have come among mankind as the 
son of Divaci Vasudeva, in his manifestation as Gopal, or the 
shepherd, was believed to be represented by the pastoral 
Apollo, Nomius, or Pan. Whena boy, Krishna slew the terrible 
serpent Kaliya. Nomius, who fed the flocks of Admetus, slew 
the serpent Python. ; 
* In some representations of his elephant, the body, limbs, and trunk 
of the animal are composed of the figures of young women, entwined in 
so whimsical but ingenious a manner as to exhibit its shape. Craufurd, 
vol. i, p. 112. 
