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complete happinefs, he prays, like a wife poet, for both. 

 An Indian prayer for ricbes would be directed to Lac- 

 Jhmi, tbe wife of Vi/Iinu, fince the Hindu goddelfes are 

 believed to be the powers of their refpeBive lords. 



As to Cuvera, the Indian Pint us, one of whofe names 

 in Paulaflya, he is revered, indeed, as a magnificent 

 Deity, reliding in the palace of Alacd, or borne through 

 the fky in a fplendid car, named Puflipaca, but is 

 manifeftly fubordinate, like the other (even Genii, to 

 three principal Gods, or rather to the principal God 

 confidered in three capacities. As the foul of the 

 world, or the pervading mind, fo finely defcribed by 

 Virgil, we fee Jove reprefented by feveral Roman poets; 

 and with great fublimity by Lucan in the known fpeech 

 of Cato concerning the Ammonian oracle : " Jupiter 

 *' is, wherever we look, wherever we move." This is 

 precifely the Indian idea of Viflinu, according to the 

 four verfes above exhibited : not that the Brdhmans 

 imagine their male Divinity to be the divine Effenceot 

 tbe Great One, which they declare to be wholly incom- 

 prehenfible; but, fince the power of prefer ving created 

 things by a fuperintending providence, belongs emi- 

 nently to the Godhead, they hold that power to exift 

 tranfeendently in the preferving member of the Triad, 

 whom they fuppofe to be every where always ; not in 

 fubftance, but in fpirit and energy : here, however, I 

 fpeak of the Vaifhnavas ; for the Saivas afcribe a 

 fort of pre-eminence to Siva, who'fe attributes are now 

 to be concifely examined. 



It was in the capacity of Avenger and Deftroyer, 

 that Jove encountered and overthrew the Titans and 

 Giants, whom Typhon, Briareus, Tityus, and the reft 

 of their fraternity, led againft the God of Olympus ; 

 to whom an eagle broughc lightning and thunderbolts 



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