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firfl: feems derived from the Sanfcrit Pmchinvau, 

 generally pronounced Prachiribau, from which the 

 Greeks made Spartembau in the accusative cafe ; the 

 two others are undubitably Sanfcrit, though much 

 diftorted, but I fufpecl them to be titles, rather than 

 proper names. 



III. This would be a proper place to mention the 

 poiierity of Noah or Satyavrata, under the names of 

 Sharma or Shama (for both are uicd,) Charnia and 

 Jyapti. They are mentioned in five or lix pur/tnas 9 

 but no farther particulars concerning them are related, 

 beiides what is found in a former ellay on Egypt. In 

 the lift of the thoufand names oi Vijhnu, a fort of Li- 

 tany, which Rrahmens are obliged to repeat on cer- 

 tain-days, Vijlinu is called Sharma, becaufe, accord- 

 ing to the learned, Sharma or Shama, was an incarna- 

 tion of that deity. In a lift of the thoufand names of 

 Swa 9 as extracted from the Fadma-puriina, the 371 ft 

 name is Shama-Jqya, which is in the fourth cafe, an- 

 fwering to our dative, the word praife being under- 

 stood : 'Praife to Sharmaja, or to him who was tricar* 

 nated in tJus houfe of Sharma. 



The 008th name is SJiarma-putradaya, in the fourth 

 cafe alio, praife to him who gave offspring to Sharma. 

 My learned friends here inform me, that it is declared 

 in fome of the pur anas, that Sharma. havin rr no chii- 

 dren, applied to Siva, and made Tapajya, td his hon- 

 our. Ifwara was lb pleafed, that he granted his re- 

 queft and condefcended to be incarnated in the 

 womb of Sharma s wife, and was born a lbn of Sharma, 

 under the name of Baleswara, or Ifwara the infant. 

 Baleswara, or limply I/ivara, we mentioned in a 

 former 'ellay on Saniramis ; and he is obvioufly the 

 dffur. oi Scripture. 



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