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XII. Havirdhaxa. Swayambhuva dies, 



XIII. Va Hi SHAD A. 



XIV. The ten Pka'cheta's. Dhruva is tranflated 



into heaven. 



By luppofing Prilhu to be Noah, and Dhruva to be 

 EnoSy this account agrees remarkably well with the 

 computation of the Samaritan Pentateuch. Enos lived 

 433 years after the birth of Noah, and, of courfe, the 

 great-grand-children of the latter could be witnefles 

 of the tranflation of Dhrwva into heaven. Swayam- 

 bhuva or Adam lived 223 years after the birth of Noah, 

 according to the computation of the Samaritan Penta- 

 teuch ; and it is laid of Prithu, that the earth having 

 afTumed the ihape of a cow, he made ufe of this grand 

 anceftor Swayambhuva as a calf to milk her. Perhaps 

 the old fire took delight in iuperintending the fields 

 and orchards, and attending the dairies 'of his be- 

 loved Prithu. 



The only material difficulty in fuppofing Prithu to 

 be the fame with Noah, refpecls his offspring to the 

 fourth generation before the Hood. But, when we 

 confider that Noah was 500 years old when Japheth 

 and his two fons were born, it is hardly credible that 

 he mould have had no children till that advanced age. 

 The purdnics infift, that Satyavrata had many before 

 the Flood, but that they perifhed with the reft of 

 mankind, and that Sharaia or Shama, Charma, 

 and Jya'pati, were born after the Flood : but they 

 appear to have no other proof of this, than that they 

 are not mentioned among thofe who efcaped with Noah 

 in the ark. I fhall now give a table of thtfeven Me- 

 lius compared with the two lines defcended from 

 Adim and I'vA. 



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