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after him, as Bryant, &c. Lula'ya the chief of the Buffalo tribe or 

 Mains' a-pati was succeeded by another incarnation of &iva, with the 

 title of Gapati, or the lord of the cow tribe, who introduced the Bos, 

 or cow into India : for there were none before. Buffaloes were the 

 only cattle : and the followers of Brahma, having thus brought the 

 cow, and introduced her into this country, they assumed the title of 

 Go-vansas, or the offspring of the cow, which they call their mother. 

 Siva, and his incarnations, or avatdras, are styled Bhagwan, Bacchon, 

 or Bacchus : and the Mahis' a-pati, and Gopati are of course entitled 

 to that epithet : the former is Bacchus Tacchos, and the other Bacchus 

 Tauromorphos. 



Nausha-puri, called in the Bhuvana-Sagara, in the Tamuli dialect 

 Nishdddburam, or the town of JSisha, is the Nysa of the Greeks, near 

 mount Meros, now Mar-coh. Luldya was defeated close to Cabul, by 

 the Gopati, with the assistance of Devi, with the title of Asa, or she 

 who grants us the object of our wishes. She is also called Jay a devi, 

 or the goddess of victory, and her sthdn is still resorted to, by devout 

 people. Alexander recognized Pallas in her, and worshipped her : 

 and Nicaia, or Niccea, or the place of the goddess of victory, is a tran- 

 slation of Jayd-devi in Hindi.* 



Mahisa or Lulaya was once for a considerable time the supreme 

 monarch of heaven and earth, and set upon mount Olympus in the 

 room of Indra, styled Juh-pati, that is to say the lord of heaven, or 

 Jupiter. The case is this : our divine ancestor Twash'ta, styled Deva, 

 or God by the Pauranics, had been intrusted with the five elements • 

 out of which, he made Man, manushya, or Mannus, and all the murtis 

 or embodied forms. Indra, or Jupiter, in a fit of ill humour, killed 

 his son Fisva-rupa, in whom was concentrated the threefold energy 

 of the world. TwasKtd meditated vengeance ; and for this purpose 

 lighted the sacred fire, with that element, which he extracted from 

 water, through a curious, and most difficult process. In the mean 

 time Indra alarmed, fled towards the north, and concealed himself. 

 Twash'ta appointed Mahis a in his room, and he would still be Juh- 

 pati, or Ju-piter even to this day, but for a most singular accident. 

 Twash'ta, whilst repeating sacred spells, placed the emphatical, or 



* Asiatic Researches, Vol. vi. p. 495. 



