OF THE HINDUS. £fi! 



from the mouth of the Indus to Dehll, and thence to 

 the mouth of the Ganges, the country is perfectly 

 level, without even a tingle hillock; but this fubject 

 is foreign to my prefent purpofe, and may be relumed 

 hereafter. The generations after the Flood, exhibited 

 in the accompanying table, begin with the famous 

 Atri, and end with Chandra-Gupta, who was contem- 

 porary with Alexander the Great. Buddha, the grandfon 

 of Atri married I/a, daughter of Satja-vrata or Noah, 

 who was born to him in his old age. 



Atri for the purpofe of making the v&das known to 

 mankind, had three fons ; or, as it is declared in the 

 puranas, the Trimurti, or Hindu Triad, was incarnated 

 in his houfe. The eldeft called Soma, or the moon in 

 a human ihape, was a portion or form of Brahma. To 

 him the facred ijles in the weft were allotted. He is ftill 

 alive though invifible, and is acknowledged as the 

 chief of the facerdotal tribe to this day. 



The fecond, a portion of Vlfiuu, was called Datta 

 or Date and Dattatreya. The countries bordering on 

 the Nile fell to his (hare. He is the Toth of the 



Egyptians. 



The third was a cholerick faint called Durvafds. He 

 was a portion of Mdhddeva, but had no fixed place 

 afngned to him ; and he Is generally rambling over 

 the world, doing more mifchief than good ; howevf r, 

 we find him very often performing Tapajya in the 

 mountains of Armenia. A dreadful conflagration hap- 

 pened once in that country, which fpreading all over 

 Cujha-dwipa deftroyed all the anima/s and vegetables. 

 Arama, the fan of a J on of Satyavrata (and confequently 

 the Aram of Scripture) who was hunting, through theie 



mountains, 



