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threw the Titans and giants, whom Typhon, Briareus, Sec. led 

 against the god of Olympus, to whom an eagle brought lightning 

 and thunder-bolls during the warfare. In a similar conlest between 

 Siva and the Daityas, or children of Diti, who frequently rebelled 

 against heaven, Brahma is said to have presented the god of de- 

 struction with fiery shafts. As the Olympian Jupiter fixed his 

 court, and held his councils on a lofty and brilliant mountain, so 

 the appropriated seat of Mahadeva, whom the Saivas consider as 

 the chief of the deities, is Mount Cailasa ; every splinter of whose 

 rocks is an inestimable gem. His terrestrial bounds are on the 

 snowy hills of Himilaya, or that branch of them to the east of the 

 Brahmaputra, which has the name of Chandrasichara, or the 

 mountains of the moon. When, after these circumstances, we 

 find Siva with three eyes, whence he is named Trilochan ; and 

 know from Pausanias, not only that Triopthalmos was an epithet 

 of Zeus, but that a statue of him had been found, so early as the 

 taking of Troy, Avith a third eye in his forehead, as we see him 

 represented by the Hindoos, we must conclude that the identity 

 of the two gods falls little short of being demonstrated. 



" In the character of destroyer also, we may look upon this 

 Indian deity as corresponding with the Stygian Jove, or Pluto ; 

 especially since Caii, or Time, in the feminine gender, is a name 

 of his consort, who will be found to be Proserpine. 



" There is yet another attribute of Mahadeva, by which he is 

 too visibly distinguished in the drawings and temples of Bengal. 

 To destroy, according to the Vedantis of India, the Sufis of Persia, 

 and many philosophers of our European schools, is only to gene- 

 rate and reproduce in another form. Hence the god of destruc- 



