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Bet-al-Kaddes, and Bet-al-Mokaddes of the Mussel^' 

 mans. 



'Saileya-D'ha'r'a' another name for it, is men- 

 tioned in the beginning of the Jyotircidabharana an 

 astronomical treatise, in which the author, giving an. 

 account of the six 'Sacas, says that 'Sa'liva'hana 

 would appear at 'Saileya-d'hdrdy or the city firmly 

 seated upon a rock, which compound alludes to the 

 city of Sion, whose foundations are upon the holy 

 hills, " the city of our God, even upon his holy hill." 

 ^Saileyam would be a very appropriate name, for it is 

 also, in a derivative form from 'Saila, and is really the 

 same with ^Saileya-dhdrd : and the whole is not im- 

 probably borrowed from the Arabic Dar-al-Sdlam, or 

 Dar-es-Sdiem, the house of peace, and the name of 

 the celestial Jerusalem, in allusion to the Hebrew 

 name of the terrestrial one. The Sanscrit names 

 of this city of the King of'Saileyamy or 'Sdlem imply 

 its being a most holy place, and consecrated apart, 

 and that it is firmly seated upon a stony hill. 



I mentioned, in the preceding essa}^, that 'Sa'li- 

 va'hana was also called Samudra-pa'la, that is 

 to say, fostered by, or the son of, the ocean. This 

 implies, that either he, or his disciples, came by sea; 

 and this notion has a strong resemblance with a pas- 

 sage from the second book of Esdras, in which Christ 

 is represented, as ascending from the sea., Jirmly seat- 

 ed upon a roch. This christian romance is of great 

 antiquity, for it is mentioned by Iren/eus, Clemens 

 of Alexandria 2,\\^ Tertullian, who considered it as 

 a book of some antiquity, and almost canonical. 



All these sacred, and most expressive epithets, 

 :^e Hindus have applied to an ancient city in India 



