352 OM THE LITERATURE 



the Creadon ;) Vi/linu, or the Pervader : GaruMa, or 

 his Eagle; the Transformations of Brahma, Siva,Linga ; 

 Ndreda, fon of Brahma; Scanda, fon of Siva; Marcan- 

 deya, or the Immortal Man; and Bhawifhya, or the 

 Prediction of Futurity ; (thefe nine belong to the attri- 

 butes and powers of the Deity ;) and/our others, Matfya, 

 Vardha, Curma, Vdmena, or as many incarnations of 

 the Great One in his character of Preferver ; all con- 

 taining ancient traditions, embellifhed by poetry, ordif- 

 guifed by fable. The eighteenth is the Bhdgawata, or 

 Life of Crijhna, with which the fame Poet is by fome 

 imagined to have crowned the whole feries ; though 

 others, with more reafon, affign them different com- 

 pofers. 



The fyftem of Hindu law, befides the fine work 

 called Menujmriti, " or what is remembered from 

 Menu" that of Ydjnyaivalcya, and thofe of Jixteen 

 other Muni's, with Commentaries on them all, confifts 

 of many tracts in high eftimation, among which thofe 

 current in Bengal are an excellent Treatife on Inheri- 

 tances, by Jimuta Vdhana; and a complete Digejl, in 

 twenty-Jeven volumes, compiled a few centuries ago by 

 Raghunandan, the Tribonian of India, whofe work is 

 the grand repofitory of all that can be known on- a 

 fubject fo curious in itfelf, and fo interefling to the 

 Britijh Government. 



Of the Philofophical Schools it will be fufficient here 

 to remark, that the firft Nydya feems analagous to the 

 Peripatetick ; the Jecond, fometimes called Vai'sifnica, 

 to the Ionick ; the two MimdnjcCs,ol which thcfecond is 

 often diftinguifhed by the name of Veddnta, to the Pla- 

 tonick : the firft Sdnc'hya to the Italick ; and the fe- 

 cond, or Pdtanjala, to the Stoick, Philofophy : fo that 

 Gautama correfponds with Arijlotle, Canada with 

 Thales, Jaimmi with Socrates, Vydfa with Plato, Capita 



with 



