510 ON MOUNT CAUCASUS. 



are not, however, agreed about his origin, some say- 

 ing he was a Scytliian, and others, that he was a 

 Syrian. 



Any catastrophe, general or partial, eitherby fire, 

 sword, or water, is called in Saner it Pralaya : but 

 this w^ord in the spoken dialefts is generally under- 

 stood of destruction by water, and of course the 

 Greeks understood it in that light ; when speaking 

 of the dreadful catastrophe, which befel the Yavanas 

 and their leader Deo-cal-yun on the borders of 

 India; and I cannot help observing, that Greece 

 was a most unfavourable spot for a partial flood. 



The Yavanas originally worshipped the sacred 

 Yon I alone, which they considered as the sole au- 

 thor of their being j but learned pandits suppose, 

 that, when we read in the above legend, that the 

 king of the Yavanas adopted for his son an Avdn- 

 tara of Maha-dev'a j it implies also, that himself 

 with his subjects admitted the worship of the Linga 

 or Phallus. Be this as it may, Prometheus, Deu- 

 calion, and his mother Jodaimia, had altars 

 erected to them in Greece. 



Garga-stkdn or the place of Garga, where he 

 lived amongst cowherds, is fourteen coss from CabiiL 

 according to some pilgrims. I have not been able 

 yet to ascertain its situation, with sufficient accuracy 

 to insert it in the map. It is situated in the moun- 

 tains, which, from this circumstance, are called 

 Garga-sthaUi and by Persian authors Gherghistan. 



It was asserted in the Cahirian mysteries, that 

 Prometheus or Pramathesa had a son called 

 ./EiNaus.* Pa us AN I as mentions his name only ; 



* Pa us AN. Bxotic. lib, 9. p, 300. 



and 



