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fin, and affuming the appearance of a handfome and accom- 
plifhed young prince, he repaired to the palace, and enjoyed 
the converfation of his beauteous and happy bride. 
In due time the princefs became pregnant ; and her chaf- 
tity being fufpected, fhe revealed to her inquifitive = 
the myftery of her fpoufe’s dele&able no&turnal m 
phoke; which the rajah, (or by other accounts the eae 
being conveniently conceaicd, himfelf beheld ; and unwilling 
that his fon fhould return to his uncouth difguiie, ivi Gre to, 
and lena the vacant affes’ fkin. 
iced at his releafe, for this event appears to have 
broke the {pell, the incarnate Gandharva warned his be- 
loved wife to quit the city, which he forefaw was about to be 
overwhelmed with a fhower of earth from the refentment of 
Indra, thus difappointed of his vengeance in the termination 
of the banifhment of his infolent fervant. She fled ac- 
aghae| to a village at a fafe diftance, and brought forth 
a fon named Vikramaditya; and a fhower of cold earth, 
poured don by Indra, buried the city and its inha- 
bitan 
2 
be here noticed that this fable, wild as it is, affords 
fill tone confirmation of the fuppofition of an inundation 
be attributed to the venzeance "of Jupiter Pluvius of the 
Hindoo Pantheon, in the fame manner as we fre equently find 
the cafe in the natural phenomena aeaucloeed in lie Thad, 
See Inp 
The one fable has, alfo, another feature of hiftoric 
truth ; for Vikramaditya, fo diftinguifhed in his origin and 
birth, is no lefs fo asa monarch and anaftronomer. His name 
marks an era much ufed all over India, of which the 186gth 
year correfponds with 1813 of our’s. Several monarchs of 
Maiwa of this name are however recorded ; and differences of 
opinion exit on fome chr aga points conneéted with this 
era, (See Af. Ref. vol. ix. art. Vikrama in quef- 
tion is, however, particularly diftinguithed by the furname 
appears that the cit ak ha 1400 ees ago. The 
ftory of the afs, varioufly modified, is widely fpread in the 
popular tales of India, Perfia, Turkey, Arabia, and other 
oriental countries, and has found its way even into the lite- 
rature and legends of Eur 
The claffical name of this city is Ujjaini, not materially 
altered in its prefent defignations. It 1s alfo called Avanti 
inthe Puranas, is much venerated by the Hindoos, and is 
one of the moitt celebrated a ee great and learned 
men among the cities of I res has pe en 
thought to deferve the name MOF the ners Oujein m 
lay claim to the honour of being the Florence of Hindooltan 
From this circumftance we have been induced to be more 
diffuote than is ufual with us in like cafes, in our account of 
this city, which, and the legends conne&ted with it, furnifh 
ample fubjeéts for the defcriptive and fabulous details of 
Puranic romance. From this fource we fhall notice one 
more tale, or rather a quution of that already given, ac- 
_ sl one of the ancient names of the city ; premif- 
ing, ho that fuch tales being found in the ee 
fully prove thofe books, a portion of them at leat, 
been written fubfequent to the cataftrophe ue they Weferibe, 
The varied ‘legend to which we advert, fays that the curfe 
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rage expired in the confumption of his afinine difguife, 
andharva afcended to the heaven of Indra; and that his 
wife, refolving to die, ripped open her belly, took - the 
child, and gave it to a malini (gardener’s wife) to n She 
took it to Ujjaini, and from the fi nel prleration of the 
child in that city, it obtained the name of Avanti, 
the Sanferit ava, to preferve. Kriffna is is ed to have been 
educated, and his friend Narada to have been born, in 
vantipur: le 
f Cujcin appears evidently, both as to name 
and pofition, in the Periplus of the Erythrean fea, as well 
as in Ptolemy, under the name of “ Ozena.’’ 
OUGHTER Loven, a lake of the county of Cavan, 
Ireland, formed by an expanfion of the river Erne, which 
flow s through it. The irregularity of its = the large 
and beautiful iflands i it contains, and the m 
that wi 
OUGHTERARD, a {mall poft-town of Ireland, in 
the county of Galway, fituated on lough Corrib. The 
rocks hére are of black and white marble. It is 120 a 
. eee N. from Dublin, and nearly 14 miles N.W. fi 
OUGHTRED, WILLIAM, in Biography, an emine ent 
mathematician, was born at Eton, in Buckinghamhhire, about 
the year 1 He was educated in grammar learning upon 
the eee of that {chool, and was thence ele¢ted, in 
1592, to King’s college, Cambridge, of which he was after- 
wards admitted a fellow. Here he applied himfelf with 
great afliduity to the ftudy of different branches of acade- 
mical learning, and ‘a adele that of mathematics. While 
an under-graduate, he invented ‘* An eafy method of geo- 
metrical dialling,” ese was not publithed before the year 
1647, but was privately received with fo much efteem, that 
. se aba fir Chriftopher) Aye at that time a fcholar 
of Wadham 
udious 
hfe, feldom ae fo far as Oe metropolis, his principal 
recreation confifting in a diverfity of ftudies. igh was 
his reputation for mathematical knowledge, that he bisned 
what number of pupils he pleafed, and many o chief 
mathematicians of that age owed much of their nell - him. 
He alfo maintained a they gaa with fome of the moft 
eminent {cholars of his time on mathematical fubjedts. In 
the year 1614, Mr. Bri 
“On Trigonometry” about th ioteh it was not 
publifhed tll 1657. In praia the fame fubje&, he in- 
vented, not many years _an_inftrument called 
«The Circles of Proportion, 
pine are s de- 
. dc und p nee ae aed be 
worked ; and it was the firtt fiding- rile ve was ae 
for thofe ufes, as well as thofe o gaugin n 
Mr. Oughtred was ged by the earl of je del tc be. 
come mathematical cee e his fon lord William Howard, 
and 
