38 ORIGIN AND DECLINE OF THE 



more complete and perfect system of moral duties, 

 and religious worship : and a race of Brdhmens more 

 pure, more enlightened, was introduced into India, 

 Crishna is the last Jvatdra, or manifestation of the 

 deity, but one; which, according to their sacred 

 books and ours. Mill appear a little before the general 

 dissolution of the world. 



But let us return to the manifestation of Vishnu 

 in the shape of a Boar, mentioned in the former 

 passage. This manifestation is acknowledged to be 

 that of the white Boar: for according to the Tapi- 

 ^hand'a, a section of the Scai}da^pum?i'a, the Calpa of 

 .the Boar consists of four inferior ones, denominated 

 from four manifestations of the great Boar. The 

 .first subordinate Calpa is that of the Curnia-Varaha^ 

 \ or Tortoise-hoar, this is the Curma-Avatara : the se- 

 cond was that of Adi-Vara'ha, called Adi iiatha also, 

 partictdarly by the Jainas: this is the Varaha Ava- 

 tdra: the third is, that of Varaha, with ,the title of 

 .Crishna: and the fourth, and present Calpa, is that 

 of the J V kite Boar, and which is very Uttle noticed 

 in the Purcnias. In the Piabhasa-chaml'a,, a section 

 of the Scand'a-purmia also, these four Calpas have 

 different names; and to them three more are added, 

 making in all seven Calpas: and we are now in the 

 seventh. These are the Calpas of Vishnu, under 

 the seven different denominations of Skiya-vratta, 

 V'AMANA contemporary with Bali, Vajra'nga, 

 Camala'-prabhu (Camulus Deus), Swaharta, 

 PuRUSHOTTAMA, and the seventh, Daitya-Sudana. 

 In the fourth Calpa of Camala-vrabhu, ' and which 

 is called also the Calpa of Vara ha,' says the author, 

 was born Icshwacu the son of Noah, in the Ti^eta 

 or second age: and the four last Calpas answer to 

 the four Calpas of the Boar, the last of which is that 



