ON MQUNT CAUCASUS. ^ ' 5OI 



It is called alfo fimply Nahujha7n, Nahupd and Naujhd^ 

 from wliich the Greeks made Nyfa : and, as the word 

 Nahujhd is pronounced Nagujh in i'everal dialefts of //j- 

 dia, particularly in the Dcckan ; we find it alfo called 

 Nagazy as in the life of jimir Timur : but it is not to 

 be confounded with Nughz in the Ayeen Akbery ; the 

 true name of which, is Bughz. or Bughzariy the capital 

 city of the diftricl of Irydb near Cabul. Nahufid is bet- 

 ter known in Hindujian by the emphatical appellation 

 o^ Devd-Nagari, or the divine city. It was called alfo, 

 but within the limits of that country only, Nagdra or 

 the city. 



Since the deftruclion of the original city, the capital 

 of that diftricl:, whatever it was, went alio by the name 

 of Nagara, which was fucceflively applied to Adinagara 

 and to Jelldldbdd, 



The diftricl of Nagara is called, in the Ayeeti-Akbery 

 and by the natives to this day, Nekier-bury for Nagar- 

 zvdra, or the home diftricl: of Nagara. 



Not a fingle veftige remains now of the ancient Nau- 

 jhi or Nyfa ; but the ftony bafe of Meru, has refifted 

 the ravages of time, and the corrofions of the river, 

 which flowed formerly to the fouth of it. 



The Sun and Dionysius were worfliipped there, and 

 Devi, or the Earth, had a cave facred to her. 



There is a ftriking fimilarity between the Grecian 

 Paniiafus and this mountain. The original temple at 

 both places was an humble Parndfa : at both places the 

 Sun, Dionysius, and the Earth were worfhipped. 

 Mount Parnafus in Greece was full of Samach'hes alfo. 

 It had two fummits, one of which was called iV^y^?, as 

 well as the adjacent city ; and the other Cyrrha or 

 2 Cyrrhan 



