l-HE HINDU RELIGION". 4^1 



against the followers of Brahma, and obtained so 

 complete a victory as to abolish totally that wor- 

 ship ; the sect of Si'va, being the most powerful, 

 rendered theirs the established religion, and claim- 

 ed for Siva, in his turn, the exclusive title of 

 I's'wARA. The sect of Vishxu, or Heri, at length 

 emerged from its obscurity, and, in concert with the 

 followers of the Sacti, or female power, destroyed 

 and abolished the sect andworship of SiVa ; thus 

 Vishnu, or Heri, became the I's'wara, and his 

 worship the established religion. This seems to 

 have been the case in Egypt ; for, if we substitute 

 the name of Osiris for Brahma, Horus for Vish- 

 nu or Heri, Typhox for Si'va, and Isis for the 

 female principle, the history agrees in all its parts. 

 A proof of the identity of Si'va and Typhon is 

 the title of Babon. Mr. Bryant says, that "Ba- 

 *' BON was thought to have been the same as Ty- 

 *' PHON, by some esteemed 2. female, and the wife 

 " of that personage." One of the titles of Si'va is 

 Bhuban, or rather Bhuvan-I's'wara, the Lord of 

 the Universe; his consort, in this character, is 

 styled Bhuvan-I's'wari', which may have occa- 

 sioned the uncertainty mentioned by Air. Bryant, 

 with respect to the se^: of that Deity, since Bhu- 

 van (world), or the Universe, is a part of the title 

 of either. 



The Sun is one of the forms of Heri, or Vishnu j 

 Osiris and Horus are both supposed to have been 

 the Sun. The Indian expedition of Osiris coincides 

 with the adventures of Rama, one of the incarna- 

 tions of VisiiNU. The four months sleep of Horus 

 tallies with the four months sleep of Vishnu. 



The sacred Bull, the vehicle of Si'va, w^as the 

 emblem of justice, and peculiarly sacred to him 

 amongst the Indians ; and the living animal itself 



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