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secondary accent on the wrong word ; and thus blasted his own scheme ; 

 Indra resumed the Olympian throne ; Mahis'a was defeated, and lost 

 his life. As, in the present case, the idiom of the Sanskrita, and Latin 

 languages, coincide, at least in the poetical dialect, I shall illustrate 

 this passage in the latter. Twash'ta said Indr inimicum auge ; and I 

 write it, as it would have been pronounced in poetry, with the usual 

 elision. Now this sentence is susceptible of two meanings : it may be 

 either Indrce inimicum auge, or Indram inimicum auge. In the first 

 case, the emphatical accent is obviously to be placed on the word 

 inimicum, requesting the gods to increase, and enlarge the power and 

 strength of the enemy of Indra. This Twash'ta wanted to say : but 

 he was so much agitated, that he placed the accent upon the word 

 Indr" 1 : then the phrase became Indram inimicum auge, or give strength, 

 and increase to Indra my enemy : for the emphatical accent, in no 

 language whatever, can be placed upon a word in regimine. 



This is the Bacchus, whose companions were styled Cabali, by the 

 Greeks : for the army of Mahis'a consisted of many myriads of Gopd- 

 las, or shepherds, called in the Tamuli dialect, in which the Bhuvana- 

 sagara is written, Cobdler in the plural, from the singular Cobdla. As 

 an avatara, incarnation, or embodied form of &iva, Mahis'a certainly 

 was inferior to none : he was besides a most religious prince, and be- 

 loved by every body. We may then naturally ask, how it happened, 

 that he was destroyed by his own prototype Siva. This is explained 

 in the following manner, by learned divines. After certain revolutions, 

 religion with the creed, and its various rites, must undergo certain 

 modifications, and even alterations. Mahis'a was a follower of the 

 old religion, which he had been even sent to protect for a certain time, 

 When a modification, and an alteration in religion was going to take 

 place, we might suppose, that this divine incarnation would readily 

 submit, or otherwise, be recalled : but this is by no means the case : 

 for all these embodied forms of the deity, being obviously under the 

 influence of maya, or worldly illusion, will never submit, or deviate in 

 the least from the object of their mission ; though now no longer neces- 

 sary. In this case, they are to be destroyed, with all their adherents : 

 when the embodied form rejoins its prototype, who bestows heavenly 

 bliss on his slaughtered followers, in his own heaven. But this subject 

 I shall resume in my Essay on the countries bordering upon the Indus. 



