
1865.] On the Sena Rdjds of Bengal. 153 
[A Kalpais a period of 4,320,000,000 of years (constituting a day and 
night of Brahma), after which period the universe is supposed to be 
destroyed by Shiva, who assumes on the occasion the form of Kapalika, 
having a tiger's hide for his dress, serpents round his neck, ashes over 
his body, and a rosary of human bones in his hand. 
The carpenter in Marryat’s “ Midshipman Hasy’’ was evidently ac- 
quainted with the Kalpa theory. ] 
ate atafucfediaaaawe ufesias 
qataa a atte feafy qa aafeag | 
fama feng seaaceiae arta: uz 
@ aqsqaaraufsacmaa qaerafa | 82 | 
He acquired by his arms the government of the world, and gained 
what was good for him in earth by his own powers. He has nothing 
to ask for in this world ; but, O Shiva, who hast the half-moon on thy 
erest, bless him and give him in the end final absorption into yourself. 
geiday ufcaafed aa: WIA 
Waal ale UCIMLAAT AT 
aelfiqcacfasfanreaa 
ara: ufaafaqaa gd a: yaa: || 82 || 
It is Valmika and Vyasa who are able awhile to do justice to his 
life ; we have tried this only to purify our words by emerging in the 
holy river of his fame. 
[Valmika, a saint, is the author of the Ramayana, a famous and 
beautiful historical poem, containing a life of Rama. 
- I believe Rama to be Bacchus, or rather Bacchus to be Rama. I 
have no authority for this idea beyond a curious similarity between the 
fables of this country and the fables as told by the Greeks. 
Rama conquered the Continent of India, 
and 
nunc quoque qui puer es, quantus tum, Bacche, fuiste 
Cum timuit thyrsos India victa tuos ! 
Victa racemifero lyneas dedit India Baccho. 
Ovid. Art. Amorum 2. 189, 190. Metam. xv. 413.] 
