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APPENDIX. 





No. I. 



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The country was entirely covered with water, in the midst of which a 

 demon, Jaladeo, resided, who preyed upon mankind, and seized on every 

 thing and person he could meet within the neighbouring regions. It hap- 

 pened at length that Cashef, the son of Marichi, and according to some 

 accounts the grandson of Brahma, visited this country, and having spent 

 some time in pious abstraction on mount Sumer, turned his attention to the 

 desolated appearance of the earth, and enquired its cause : the people 

 told him of the abode of Jaladeo in Sati Sir, and his predatory incursions 

 upon them. The heart of Cashef was moved to compassion, and he took 

 up his residence in Noubadan, near Hirapur, for a thousand years, em- 

 ploying that period in religious austerities \ in consequence of which, Ma- 



