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contrary axiom, and fuccceded even beyond his advifcr. 

 Notwithftandinjr that RadclifFc fcems to have literally prac- 

 tifed this principle, in his dealings both with his patients 

 and his brethren ; and notwithftanding the fevere acciifa- 

 tions of ignorance and empiricifin, which were every where 

 levelled againft him ; the univcrfal reputation, which he ac- 

 quired and maintained, feems to fanftion the teilimony of 

 Dr. Mead, that " he was defervedly at the head of his pro- 

 fefljon, on account of his great medical penetration and ex- 

 perience." See Atterbury's Epiitolary Correfpondence. 

 The Richardfoniana. Pope's Works, vol. vii. Swift's 

 Works, vol. xix. Hutchinfon's Biographia Medica. 



RADDELE, in Geography, a town of Ceylon, on the 

 eaft coafl ; 5 miles N.E. of Trincoli. 



RADDINSDORP, a town of the duchy of Holftein ; 

 6 miles E.S.E. of Eutyn. 



RADDLE, in /Igricullure, a red ochre of iron, which, 

 according to Dr. Darwin, lias been found ufeful as a ma- 

 nure in the northern parts of Staffordfhire. Its properties 

 have not, however, been yet chemically examined as they 

 relate to manure. See Reddle. 



RADEBURG, in Geography, a town of Saxony, in 

 the margraviate of Mcilien ; 10 miles N.E. of Drefdcn. 

 N. lat. SI-" 8'. E. long. 13° 53'. 



RADECHAU, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Konigingratz ; 9 miles S.E. of Trautenau. 



RADEGATZ, a town of Germany, in the principality 

 of Anhalt-Dcifau ; 13 miles S.S.W. of DefTau. 



RADEGURRY, a town of Hindooftan, in Canara ; 

 24 miles S.S.E. of Mangalore. 



RADENTHAL, a town of the duchy of Carinthia ; 

 13 miles E. of Saxenburg. 



RADERAN, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Kaurzim ; 3 miles N.E. of Kaurzim. 



RADERMACHIA, in Botany, a name originally given 

 to the Bread-fruit, (fee Artocarpus,) by Thunberg, in 

 honour of one of his great patrons, Joachim Cornelius 

 Matthew Radermacher, a member of the Dutch council, 

 and Prefident of the Society of Sciences, at Batavia. The 

 author, in his Nova Genera, p. 25, reprefents this gentle- 

 man as a molt dillinguifhed Macenas, and encourager ot 

 Natural Hiftory. Neverthelefs, the above name has, by 

 common confent, given way to the expreflive one of Forfter, 

 Artocarpus, which is precifely fynonimous with Bread- 

 fruit. 



RADERSBERG, in Geography, a town of Germany, 

 in the principality of Culmbach ; 7 miles E. of Bayreuth. 



RADES, a town of Tunis, on the N.E. coail ; 5 miles 

 S.E. of Tunis. 



RADESCHE, or RATSCirACii, a town of Lower 

 Carniola, on the Save ; 10 miles N.W. of Gurckfcld. 



RADHA, in Mythology, is the name of the confort of 

 the Hindoo deity Krifhna. As Kriflina was an av.atara, or 

 incarnation of Vilhnu, lo Radha is underllood to be limilarly 

 an avatara ef Viflinu's confort Laklhmi ; thus incarnated 

 to accompr.uy her lord in this, his moft fplendid terreltrial 

 manifeftation. Under the articles Krisiin'A andLAKMiMi 

 fome notice will be found on the fubjecJt of this. Radha is fecn 

 very frequently pourtrayed and alluded to in the paintings 

 and writings of India : Krilhna is, indeed, feldom feen with- 

 out her. She is reprefented of perfect beauty, and is warmly 

 eelebr.aled in the amatory poetics of Hindooltan. In the 

 elegant work of Jayadeva, entitled Gita Govinda, a paftoral 

 drama exhibiting the loves of Kriibna and Radha, the lovely 

 nymph is thus defcribed after a quarrel with her frolickfome 

 and fickle lord, in the morning after the night of reconcili- 

 ation, when alfliclion ceafed, and ecltacy crowned therecol- 



leftion of pall forrows. " In the morning fJie arofe, dif' 

 arrayed, and her eyes betrayed a night without (lumber, 

 when the yellow-robed god, who gazed on her with tranl- 

 port, thus, m his heavenly mind, meditated on her charms : 

 ' Though her locks be diflufed at random ; though the luftre 

 ot her lips be faded ; though her garland and zone be fallen 

 from their enchanting (lations ; and though fhe hides their 

 places with her hands, looking towards me with baflifui 

 lilcnce ; yet, ev'ii thus difarrayed, file iillb me with ecltatic 

 delight.' But Radha, preparing to array herfelf before the 

 company ot nymphs could fee her confufion, fpakethus with 

 exultation to her obleqnious lover. 



' Place, O fon of Yadu ! with fingers cooler than fandal 

 wood, place a circlet of muil< on this breait, which refembles 

 a vafe ot coniecrated water, crowned with frefh leaves, and 

 fixed near a vernal bower to propitiate the god of love. 

 Place, my darling ! the gloffy powder, which would make 

 tlie blackell bee envious, on this eye, whofe glances are 

 keener than arrows darted by the hufband of Reti. (See 

 Rkti.) Fix, O accomplifhed youtV. ! the two gems, 

 which form part of love's chain, in thefe ears, whence the 

 antelopes of thine eyes may run downwards and (port at 

 pleafure. Place now a trefh circlet of mufl<, black as the 

 lunar Ipots, on the moon ot my forehead ; and mix gay 

 floivers on my trelfes with peacock's feathers, in graceful 

 order, that they may wave like the banners of Kama. Now . 

 replace, O tender hearted ! the loofe ornaments of my 

 veilure ; and refix the golden bells of my girdle on their 

 deftined llation, which refembles thofe hills where the god 

 with five fhatts, who dcftroyed Sambara, keeps his elephant 

 ready for battle.' While fhe fpake, the heart of Yadava 

 triumphed; and obeying her fportive behei\s, he placed 

 mufl-cy fpots on her bofom and forehead ; dyed her temples 

 with radiant hues : embelliihed her eyes with additional 

 blacknefs ; decked her braided hair, and her neck, with 

 fredi garlands ; and tied on her wrifts the loofened bracelets, 

 on her ankles the beamy rings, and round her waill the zone 

 of bells, that founded with ravilhing melody." 



But we muft recollect, fays the author of the Hindu 

 Pantheon, whence this article is chiefly taken, that the 

 feemingly amorous conflitls of thefe ardent lovers are mere 

 mydical defcriptions of " the reciprocal attraftion between 

 the divine goodncfs and the human foul." This is the em- 

 blematical theology that Pythagoras admired and adopted ; 

 that the Sufi poets, Hafez, Sadi, and many others among 

 the Peril ans, and Solomon alfo, in his fine Song, fo beauti- 

 fully inculcates. Like the enthufiafls of other days, and 

 in a manner not eafily comprehended by the unenlightened, 

 nor believed by them to be permanently chaile, however in- 

 nocent its commencement, " they profefs eager defire, but 

 without carnal afleftion ; and circulate the cup, but no 

 material goblet : in their feft, all things are fpiritual, all is 

 myilery within myftery." See fir W. Jones's admirable 

 Eilay on the Myftical Poetry of the Perfians and Hindoos, 

 in tlie third volume of the Afiatic Refearches, in which a 

 tranflation of the Gita Govinda of Jayadeva is introduced. 

 Under the article Jayadeva of this work is a brief notice 

 of his poem ; and under Maiiesa is an extraft from it, 

 defcriptive of the perfons and loves of this intereiling 

 couple. (See alfo Prabiia.) The reader defirous of 

 feeing what has been faid and believed on the curious 

 fubjecl of myftical or emblematical theology, may coirfult 

 our articles under Mystery, Mystics, and thofe thence 

 referred to. 



Returning to Radha, we have to obferve that among the 



fc6t ot GokalalUia (lee Sects of Hindoos^ fhe is deemed a 



perl'onitication of rchgion, and fometiraes called Rulmeni. 



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