ON MOUNT CAUCASUS. 4^0 



Capila is now performing Tapafia at Sdgar ifland, 

 where his Jihdn or flace^ is about live miles from the 

 fea; the Delta of the Ganges having thus far encroach- 

 ed upon the fea, fmce the eretlion of this lail Jihdn. 

 Cardame'swara is thus called, when confidered as a 

 divine emanation from Iswara, but he feems to be 

 Priyavrata, when confidered as a mortal. For when- 

 ever the deity condefcends to be born of woman; the 

 perfon is one, but there are two natures. To this dif- 

 tinQion we muft carefully attend, in order to reconcile 

 many feeming contradiftions in the Purdnas ; and more 

 particularly fo, with refpett to Vaivaswata and Sa- 

 TYAVRATA ; who are acknowledged to be but one per- 

 fon: the divine nature is an emanation of Vishnu in 

 his charafter of the Sun ; and Satyavrata is the human 

 nature ; thefe two natures often a6l independently of each 

 other, and may exift at the fame time in different places. 



From particular circumftances it appears, that Sa- 

 tyavrata before the flood lived generally in the coun- 

 tries about the Indus, between Cabul and Cajlwiir ; and 

 if we find him in Dravira or the fouthern parts of the 

 peninfula, it feems that it was accidentally, and that he 

 went there only for fome religious purpofes. Even af- 

 ter the flood, he refided for fome time on the banks of 

 the Indus. According to tradition, which my learned^ 

 friends here inform me is countenanced by ih^ Pia-dnas^ 

 he lived and reigned a long time at Bettoo?; onthe bknks 

 of the Ga?iges and to the fouth of Canoge. In the Vara- 

 ha-purdnUyV A^\j ^ the father of Vivaswata, is declared 

 to have been king of CaJhmiVy and the adjacent, coun- 

 tries. They fliew to this day the tomb of his father 

 Lamech, as mentioned in the Ayeen Akbery, at at place 

 called Natdakhiy between Alijhung and Munderar ; about 

 twelve or thirteen miles to the north-weit of yaldldbdd 

 in the country of Cabul. The Mufubnans called him 

 Peer Maitlam; and in the dialed of Samarcand, 

 Maker or Maitri Bur-kha'n. The Bauddhijis fay, 

 that it is Budd'ha-Nara'yana, or Euddha dwelling 



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