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greffion. He performed afts of fevere mortification, for 

 he wasa man of infinite refolution, with a companionate 

 heart. One night he had a virion, and heard a voice 

 faying, il Name whatever boon thou wanteft." Am&ra 

 Dcvu, having heard this, was aftonifhed, and with due 

 reverence replied, " Firft, give me a vifitation, and then 

 44 grant me fuch a boon." He had another dream in 

 the night, and the voice faid, u How can there be an 

 44 apparition in the Kalee Ycog ? The fame reward may 

 " be obtained from the fight of an image, or from the 

 M worfhip of an image, as may be derived from the 

 84 immediate vifitation of a Deity." Having heard this, 

 he caufed an image of the Supreme Spirit Bocd-dhd to 

 be made, and he worfhipped it, according to the law, 

 with perfumes, incenfes, and the like ; and he thus glo- 

 rified the name of that Supreme Being, the incarnation 

 of a portion of VceJIinoo : " Reverence be unto thee in 

 6 the form of Bcod-dhd ! Reverence be unto the Lord 

 4 of the Earth ? Reverence be unto thee, an incarnation 

 8 of the Deity and the Eternal One ! Reverence be unto 

 8 thee, O God, in the form of the God of Mercy : the 

 4 difpeller of pain and trouble, the Lord of all things, 

 4 the Deity who overcometh the fins of the Kalee Yoog, 

 4 the Guardian of the Univerfe, the Emblem of Mercy 

 4 toward thofe who ferve thee- — O'm ! the poflelforofall 

 4 things in vital form ! Thou art Brahma, Veejhnoo, and 

 4 Mcihifa ! Thou art Lord of the Univerfe ! Thou art, 

 4 under the proper form of all things, moveable and 

 ' immoveable, the poffefTbr of the whole ! and thus I 

 4 adore thee. Reverence be unto the Beftower of Sal- 

 4 vation, and Refkeekcfd, the Ruler of the Faculties ! 

 4 Reverence be unto thee ( KefavaJ ihc Deltroyer of the 

 4 Evil Spirit Kejee ! O, Damordara, fliew me favour ! 

 4 Thou art he who refteth upon the face of the milky 

 4 ocean, and who lyeth upon the ferpent Sefa. Thou 

 1 art Treeviekramd^ho at three ilridesencompaffed the 

 4 Earth ! I adore thee, who art celebrated by a thouland 

 8 names, and under various forms, in the fhapc of 



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