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of Christ, and of the Paraclete ; and was in India, 

 and at Lhd-dac, in the ninth century, towards tlie 

 latter end of which there appeared another 'Saliva'- 

 HAN A, in the country about DUl'i, (according to the 

 list brought from Assam, by the late Dr. Wade)* 

 Deguigxes shows, that Manes propagated his doc- 

 trine in Tartary, where he was revered as a god. 

 In the country of Cheg'il, in Tartary, often men- 

 tioned in Persian Romances with Khoteti, he erected 

 several temples, which he adorned with pictures. 

 His skill, as a painter, is greatly extolled, by Persian 

 and Arabian writers, as well as his famous collection 

 of drawings, in a book called Erteng ; and every 

 collection of pictures is still thus called to this day. 

 Many authors, both ancient and modern, have la- 

 boured to find out the etymology of his name Manx ; 

 but it seems that it was his original Hindu name, 

 which signifies a jewel in general, and is not un- 

 common, to this day, in compound names, as Ma- 

 ni-ra'ma, Nila-Mani, &c. It was the general 

 opinion formerly, that Manes was a Hindu, and his 

 father a Brahmen. He was also called Cubricus. 

 Cubri in Hindi signifies a hunchback ; and Cubrica, 

 in a derivative form, signifies, either a man who is 

 crook-backed, or the son of such a man. His father's 

 name was Patekius, and Pdfhaca, to thi^day, is 

 a very common surname in India. Carossa, the 

 name of his mother, is more obscure and uncommon. 

 The Mankheans said, that Christ was the primeval 

 serpent, who enlightened the minds of Adam and 

 Eve ; the creator, the preserver, and the destroyer ; 

 the original soul, the preserver of the soul, and the 

 fabricator of the instrument, with which the salva- 

 tion of the soul is effected. He was born of the 

 earth, and, for the redemption of mankind, sus- 

 pended on every tree : for they saw him crucified on 

 every tree, among its branches. 



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