328 On Egypt and the Nile 



ring the infancy however, of Crishna, 'the perfecuted Yddavas emigrated 

 from India, and retired to the -mountains of the exterior • Cusha-dwij:, or 

 AbyJJinia: their leader Ydtu was properly entitled Ya'dave'ndra, or Prince 

 of Yddavas °, whence thofe mountains acquired the fame appellation. They 

 are now called Owrimidrk, or Arwemidre, which means, we are told, the 

 Land of Arwe, the firft king of that country [a); but, having heard the 

 true Sanfcrk name pronounced, in common fpeech, Yarevindra, I cannot 

 but fufpect a farther corruption of it in the name of the Abyjjinian moun- 

 tains. Thofe Indian emigrants are defcribed in the Purdns as a blamelefs, 

 pious, and even facred, race $ which is exactly the character giien by the 

 ancients to. the genuine Ethiopians, who are faid by Stephanus of Byzan- 

 tium, by Eusebius, by Phxlostratus, by Eustathi us, and others, t© 

 have come originally from India under the guidance of Aetu-s, or Ydtu $ 

 but they confound Him with king Ait, who never was there: Ya / da- 

 be'ndra (for fo his title is generally pronounced) feems to be the wife and 

 learned Indian mentioned in the Pafchal Chronicle by the name of Anduba- 

 rius (b). The king -or chief of the Ydtus is correctly named Ya'tupa, or in 

 the weftern pronunciation, Ja'tupa 3 and their country would, in a derivative 

 fornix be called Jdtupeya.% now the writers of the Univerfal Hiftory alTert, that 

 the native Ethopians give their country, even at this day, the names of Iiiopia 

 and Zaitiopia, There can he little or no doubt, that Y a 'tup a was the 

 king ^Eth 1 ops of the Creek Mythologtfts, who call him the fon of Vulc anj 

 but, according to the Purdns, that dcfcent could not he afcribed to Ya'tu., 

 though it mighty perhaps, to king I't ; for it will bs mown, in a fubfe- 

 quent part of this elTay^ that the Vuxe an of Egypt was alfo conlidered by 

 the Hindus as an avdntara, or fubordinate incarnation, of Maha'de'va« 



(a) Univ. Hill, vol.. 1.6. /. 222. (6) Chron. Pafch. p. 36, 



