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" then know my true greatnefs, rightly named the Su> 

 64 preme Godhead: by my favour, all thy questions (hall 

 " be anfwered, and thy mind abundantly inftrucled." 

 " Heri, having thus directed the monarch, difappeared; 

 "and Satyavrata humbly waited for the time which 

 " the ruler of our fenfes had appointed. The pious 

 " king, having fcattered toward the eaft the pointed 

 " blades of the grafs darbha, and turning his face to- 

 " ward the north, fate meditating on the feet of the 

 " God who had borne the form of a fifli. The fea, 

 " overwhelming its fhoreSj deluged the whole earth; 

 u and it was foon perceived to be augmented by fhowers 

 " from immenfe clouds. He, ft'ill meditating on the 

 " command of Bhdgavat, faw the veffel advancing, and 

 6t entered it with the chiefs of Brdhmans, having carried 

 *' into it the medicinal creepers, and conformed to the 

 " directions of Heri. The faints thus addreffed him : 

 " O king, meditate on Cefava ; who will, furely, deli- 

 " liver us from this danger, and grant us profperity." 

 " The God, being invoked by the monarch, appeared 

 " again diftinctly on the vaft ocean in the form of afifh, 

 " blazing like gold, extendingamillion of leagues, with 

 " one ftupendous horn; on which the king, as he had 

 " before been commanded by Heri, tied the (hip with a 

 " cable made of a vaft ferpent, and, happy in his prefer- 

 " vation, flood praifing the deftroyer of Madhu. When 

 " the monarch had finifhed his hymn, the primeval male, 

 " Bhdgavat, who watched for his fafety on the greater ex- 

 " panfe of water, fpoke aloud to his own divine effence, 

 " pronouncing a facred Pur ana, which contained the 

 " rules of the Sdnc'hya philofophy : but it was an infinite 

 " myftery to be concealed within the breaft of Satya- 

 " vrata ; who, fitting in the veffel with the faints, heard 

 " the principle of the foul, the External Being, pro- 

 " claimed by the preferving power. Then Heri, rifing 

 " together with Brahma, from the deftruftive deluge, 

 " which was abated, flew the demon Hayagriva, and 

 " recovered the facred books. Satyavrata, instructed 

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