from the Ancient Books of the Hindus. 377' 



hi triumph over the whole earth, but at length caft him lifelefs on the ground,.- 

 where he was transformed into a mountain ftill called the Mountain of Cro'r a 3 

 or the Boar : the place, where Vishnu fat by the river Call, has the name of 

 Chintahard-fthali; and "all they, fays the author of the jfgama, who are 

 '* troubled with anxious thoughts, need only meditate on Chinta'hara and 

 " their cares will be diffipated*" The word C hint a was, I imagine, pro- 

 nounced Xanthus by the defcendants of DARDA'NA'sA,orDARDANUs, who- 

 carried into their new fettlements not only the name, but fome obfeure no- 

 tions relative to the power,, of the deity Chinta'hara : the diftritl of 

 Troas, where they fettled, -.was called alfo Xanthe y there was a town Xanthus _ 

 in Lycia, and a nation of Xanthi, or Xantii, in Thrace y a river of Lycia had 

 that name, and fo had another near Troy, in the waters of which grew a plant, 

 fuppofed capable of difpelling the cares and terrours, which both Greeks and 

 Indians believed to be caufed by the prefence of fome invifible deity or evil 

 fpirit. (a) The river Xanthus near Troy was vulgarly called Scamander, but 

 its facred name, . ufed in religious rites, was Xanthus; as moil rivers in India 

 have different names, popular and holy. X a n t hu s, according tcr Hom e r , 

 was a fon of Jup iter, or, in the language of Indian Mythology, an avdntara f 

 or mferiour manifestation, of Siva: others make him a fon of the great 

 Tremilus (<£), whom I mould fuppofe to be Jupiter Temelhcs r or rather 

 Tremelius, worfhipped at. Biennus in CrHt ", for the Tremili, or Tremylice y 

 came originally from that- ifland. According to Steph an us of Byzantium, 

 the native country of Xanthus was Egypt (c) -, . and, » on the mores of the 

 Ailafitick, . there were monfters fhaped like bulls, probably fea-eows, called 

 Xanthari.. A poet, cited by Stephan us, under the word Tremi/e,,&ys 9 - 

 that Xanthus, fon of Jupiter, travelled with his brothers over the whole 



(a),PLVT. on Rivers, art. Scamander. (b) Steph. By zant. Tremi'e. (<) See the word Xanthus, 



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