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plainly the Indian Desanaus of tlie Greek writers, whose daughter 

 Pandaea at once suggests the Buddhist Pandoos. Vishnou, the god 

 of the watei", called Narayana, is another and grander representation 

 of Achuzam, who is probably the chief of the Vaisyas or Vasus, as 

 Vasu of Cashmere, his brother Achashtari being the ancestor of the 

 Kshetriyas, and perhaps of the Sudras. In the Vayu Purana» 

 Vishnou ranks next to Iswara. He rides upon the eagle Garm-a and 

 on the serpent Sesha. The former is Gerar, and a form of Jehaleleel, 

 and the latter is Achuzam himself. Moudevi, a wife of Vishnou, 

 rides upon an ass like Hestia, and this is the ass of Sheth or Typhon. 

 He opposes Siva and his phallus worship. The relation of Vishnou, 

 however, which first led me to associate his name with that of 

 Achuzam, is that of the husband of Lakshmi or Sri, who is Ceres 

 the wife of Jasion, the sister of Jezreel or the sown. I confess, how- 

 ever, that the fish incarnation of this god recalls the name of Onam 

 or Dagon, and that his\ enmity to the giants or Hii-anyas, Akcha 

 and Casyapa, representing as these do the eponyms of Accho and 

 Achzib, which are undoubtedly of Ashchurite origin, does not agree 

 with his being the eldest son of the father of Tekoa. Vishnou, as 

 we have seen, rides upon the serpent Sesha. This Sesha is the snake 

 king, and the same with Ahi, whom Mr. Cox has well shown to be 

 identical with Echidna and the Sphynx, already proved to be a 

 reminiscence of Achuzam. The serpents are fitly connected with the 

 Asuras and Yakshas, being the Takshak race that lorded it for a 

 time in India. The story of Ajasat is that of Zobak, and furnishes 

 an Achuzzath-like form of Achuzam's name. The snake or dragon 

 and the horse Mr. Cox has shown to be luiited in many mythologies. . 

 It is hard to tell how these came to be combined with the memory of 

 Achuzam, yet no other name so completely and satisfactorily unites 

 their etymologies and connected traditions. Achuzam is one of the 

 Buddhas. Gautama and Sommonokodom are rightly names of his, 

 while ISTarrotama may present us with one taken from his mother 

 I^^aarah. Kikata and Maghada are Buddhist regions, and Okkaka or 

 IkshwakoG sovereigns of the Buddhist line. In the latter there is, at 

 times, a confusion of Achuzam and Coz the son of Ammon, which 

 appears also in the Greek story that gives Ogyges, at times, as the 

 son of Ashchur, and at others, connecting him with Thebes, plainly 

 alludes to the ancestor of Jabez. That Buddha does represent 

 Achuzam appears from the fact that his rites and the Eleusinian 



