230 on thf chronology 



with inhabitants. Thefe two ions were Priyavrata 

 and Utta'nafa'da, who appear to be the fame with 

 Card am a and Hue hi. Here the antediluvian hiftory 

 allumes a different ihape ; and the pur antes ^ abandon- 

 ins: their idle tales of the feven Menus and renovations 

 of the world, between the time of Swayamkhuva 

 and the ilood of SatyayrAta, prefents us with fome- 

 thinff more confident with reafoii and hiltorical truth ; 

 but which at once overthrows their extravagant fabric k. 

 Puiyavrata was the firft born of Adima ; and the 

 particulars recorded of his progeny have no fmall affi- 

 nity with the generations exhibited bv Saxchoxia- 

 tho, as will appear from the following comparative 

 Table : 



I. Adima, and Adima or I. Protogonus, fyno- 

 Tva. nimous with Adim : 



Ajon or Aeon from 

 I'va or FvaMj in the 

 fecond cale. 



II. Priyavrata. He mar- II. Genus, Gene a. 



ried Barhismati, the 

 daught e r of V i s v a c a r - 

 ma, the chief engineer 

 of the Gods. 



III. Agnidhra and his fe- III. Phos, Phfr, Phlox; 

 ven brothers, whole that is, light, fire, and 

 names fignify lire and flame, 

 flame. By one wife he 

 had three fons : they 

 became Menus; and were 

 named, Uttama, Ta- 

 m a s a , and R a i v a t a . 

 Bv another wife, Agxi- 

 dura had nine fons, who 



re their names to the 

 mountainous tracts ot 



abhl 



IV. CiM- 



