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fitiiation, and in order to avoid bis looks (lepped afide. 

 Brahma' unable to move, but ftill defirous to fee her, 

 a face fprang out upon him, toward her. Thus flie fbift- 

 ed her place four times round him, according to the 

 four corners of the world; and four faces grew up to 

 his head. Having recovered his intellefts, the other 

 half of his body fprang from him and became Sway- 

 AMBHUVA or Adima. Swayambhuva literally Sway- 

 AMBHU-like fignifies, that Brahma' or Swayambhu 

 appeared in an affumed form, called from that circum- 

 ftance Swyambhova. The pofieflions of Cardames'- 

 wara were in the hills along the banks of the Ganges^ 

 to the eaftward of the reft of mankind- His fon Capi- 

 la, a moll religious man, performed for a long time re- 

 ligious aufterities near Hnrdwn?', where they fliew to 

 this day the place where he lived, under the name of 

 Capila-Jthdn : hence the pafs of Hardwar is fometimes 

 called the pafles of Capila or Kupeleh. 



Cardame's'v/ara is the deftruftive power united to a 

 form of clay : Iswara attempted to kill his brother 

 Brahma', who being immortal, was only maimed : but 

 Is'wara finding him afterwards in a mortal fhape in the 

 charafter of Dacsha, killed him, as he was performing 

 a facrifice. Cardame'swara is then obvioufly the 

 Cain of fcripture, and of courfe Capail is his fon 

 Enoch, and CapUa-Jlhdn is probably the city Encchia 

 thus called after him. The Mufidmans fcem to have 

 borrowed from the Hindus the appellation of Capila 

 or Ca'bil, which they give to Cain, who is fometimes 

 called Capile'swara in the Purdnas ; being an incar- 

 nation of Maha'-deva ; Enoch was an incarnation of 

 Vishnu, and is always called Capila-muni. Capile'- 

 swara was a Mioii alfo; hence he is fometimes called, 

 though improperly, Capila-muni; which inaccuracy 

 has occafioned fome confulion in the Purdnas. Capi- 

 la-muni, is reprefented as a moft religious penitent, 

 though fomewhat cholerick, and Henoch or C'hx\- 



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